The Prisoner of Sakura (2019)
With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".
Director:
Masaki Inoue
Writers:
Shunsuke Katori, Masaki Inoue.
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Junko Abe as Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya |
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Rodion Galyuchenko as Alexander Sorokin |
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Issey Ogata as Commandant Kono |
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Andrey Dementyev as Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky |
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Takumi Saitoh as Shiro Kurata |
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Ivan Gromov as Alexey Krushinsky |
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Yōko Yamamoto as Grandmother Kikue |
| Production | Irina Inoue | Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Atsuko Shiraishi | Costume Design |
| Production | Yumiko Masuda | Executive Producer |
| Production | Hitoshi Endo | Producer |
| Writing | Shunsuke Katori | Screenplay |
| Writing | Kazuhiko Tanaka | Original Story |
| Writing | Masaki Inoue | Screenplay |
| Writing | Jumpei Aoyoma | Original Story |
| Sound | Hiroyuki Onogawa | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Tomoaki Iwakura | Director of Photography |
| Art | Ryoji Matsumoto | Art Direction |
| Directing | Masaki Inoue | Director |
| Sound | Alim Zairov | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Masaki Inoue | Editor |
| Writing | Konstantin Samoylenko | Writer |
