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Where to Watch 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".
Drama 111 min
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Cast
- Junko Abe as Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya
- Rodion Galyuchenko as Alexander Sorokin
- Issey Ogata as Commandant Kono
- Andrey Dementyev as Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky
- Takumi Saitoh as Shiro Kurata