Directed by:
Masaki InoueScreenplay:
Masaki InoueCinematography:
Tomoaki IwakuraCast:
Junko Abe, Rodion Galyuchenko, Ogata Issei, Takumi Saitoh, Aleksandr Domogarov, Yôko Yamamoto, Иван Громов, Rii IshiharaPlots(1)
The present day. Sakurako is a TV assistant in Matsuyama. Her first assignment is to prepare a coverage of the local Russian military cemetery and of the life of Russian prisoners during the Russo-Japanese war. Her grandmother gives Sakurako the diary of her great-grandmother Yui, who was a nurse in the prison camp. In the diary she recorded the story of her love for a Russian officer Alexander Sorokin. It was a forbidden and impossible love. Even though the Japanese made many friends among Russian prisoners, there was no way to ignore the war and the conservate society. Sorokin escaped and doomed himself to eternal separation from his beloved. But in 2018 in Russia an unexpected discovery awaited Sakurako… (Moscow International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Junko Abe
Japan
Best movies:
Still the Water (2014)
Samurai Marathon (2019)
Rodion Galyuchenko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Road to Berlin (2015)
August. Eighth (2012)
Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)
Ogata Issei
Japan
Best movies:
Yi Yi (2000)
The Sun (2005)
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle (2021)
Takumi Saitoh
Japan
Best movies:
Sea Monkey (2004)
13 Assassins (2010)
Shinjuku Incident (2009)
Aleksandr Domogarov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Idiot (2003) (series)
With Fire and Sword (1999)
Assa (1987)
Yôko Yamamoto
Japan
Best movies:
Blade of the Immortal (2017)
Monster from a Prehistoric Planet (1967)
Cobra (1976)
Иван Громов
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Six Degrees of Celebration (2010)
Antikiller (2002)
Darkest Hour (2011)