Plot Summary

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".

Movie Details

Original Title
ソローキンの見た桜
Status
released
Original Language
ja

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Cast

Junko Abe as Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya

Junko Abe

Yui Takeda / Sakurako Takamiya

Rodion Galyuchenko as Alexander Sorokin

Rodion Galyuchenko

Alexander Sorokin

Issey Ogata as Commandant Kono

Issey Ogata

Commandant Kono

Andrey Dementyev as Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky

Andrey Dementyev

Alexander Svyatopolk-mirsky

Takumi Saitoh as Shiro Kurata

Takumi Saitoh

Shiro Kurata

Ivan Gromov as Alexey Krushinsky

Ivan Gromov

Alexey Krushinsky

Yōko Yamamoto as Grandmother Kikue

Yōko Yamamoto

Grandmother Kikue

Production Companies

AMUSE logoAMUSE
BCM Roadshow Productions
Channel One logoChannel One
Heisei Project
Hakuhodo DY Media Partners logoHakuhodo DY Media Partners