The Prisoner of Sakura
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Shunsuke Katori
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| Kanji | ソローキンの見た桜 |
| Russian | В плену у сакуры |
| Directed by | Masaki Inoue |
| Screenplay by | Masaki Inoue Shunsuke Katori |
| Produced by | Yumiko Masuda Irina Inoue Keisuke Shimizu Hitoshi Endo |
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| Cinematography | Tomoaki Iwakura |
| Music by | Hiroyuki Onogawa Ivan Sintsov Alim Zairov |
| Distributed by | Kadokawa Pictures Heisei Project |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Countries | Japan Russia |
| Languages | Japanese Russian |
| Box office | $1,635 |
The Prisoner of Sakura (Japanese: ソローキンの見た桜, Hepburn: Sorokin no mita saka) (Russian: В плену у сакуры, V plenu u sakury) is a 2019 Japanese war film directed by Masaki Inoue. A joint Japan-Russia co-production, the movie is based on the true story of a prison camp in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, during the Russo-Japanese War.[1][2]
In the present day, a journalist named Sakurako Takamiya works for a local TV station. She researches into the Russian prisoners of war cemetery that local students keep clean. Her boss Shiro Kurata tells her about a letter from Russian Army officer named Alexander Sorokin, which was addressed to a nurse named Yui Takeda. They travel to Russia to look into Sorokin's diary.
In 1904, during the Russo-Japanese War, Yui takes care of the injured Sorokin at a prisoner of war camp in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. At first, Yui hates Sorokin, because her younger brother died in the war. Her feelings change, as they fall in love under difficult circumstances.
Cast
- Junko Abe as Yui Takeda/Sakurako Takamiya
- Rodion Galyuchenko as Alexander Sorokin
- Yoko Yamamoto as Kikue Takamiya
- Aleksandr Domogarov as Captain Vasily Boysman
- Andrei Dementiev as Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky
- Naomasa Musaka as Yukichi Takeda
- Hana Ebise as Naka Takeda
- Setsuko Kaida as Take Takeda
- Ivan Gromov as Alexey Krushinsky
- Issey Ogata as Commandant Kono
- Takumi Saitoh as Shiro Kurata
- Jtarô Sugisaku as TV cameraman
- Rii Ishihara