The Prisoner of Sakura

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 RussoJapanese 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 RussoJapanese War