Sakura no Sono
7.4 /10 1 Votes
Duration Screenplay Hiroaki Jinno | 7.2/10 Genre Drama Running time 1h 36m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date November 2008 (2008-11) Cast Hiroko Nakajima (Yuko Shimizu), Miho Tsumiki (Noriko Sugiyama), Yasuyo Shirashima (Chiyoko Kurata), Miho Miyazawa (Kaori Jomaru), Chigusa Abe (Arimi Tashiro), Junko Asanuma (Kanako Onishi)Similar movies 10 Things I Hate About You , Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Never Back Down , Finding Forrester , Coach Carter , High School Musical 3: Senior Year |
Sakura no Sono (櫻の園, literally Cherry Blossom Garden) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. It was serialized from 1985 to 1986 in Hakusensha's manga magazine LaLa. The story focuses on individuals from a drama club that are putting on the play The Cherry Orchard.
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The manga was adapted into a film in 1990 by Shun Nakahara, and a remake was released in November 2008. Theatrical stage productions debuted at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space in 1994 and at the Aoyama Round Theatre in 2007 and 2009.
Sakura no sono
Plot
The drama club of Oka Academy an all girl high school put on the play The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov for the anniversary of the school's founding. Each chapter follows the life of one of the club members while the preparations for the play go on.
Characters



Live-action films
The manga was adapted into a film in 1990 by Shun Nakahara (English title The Cherry Orchard). A remake was announced in 2007 by the same director and was released in November 2008. The plot is similar to the original manga, in which a modern-day all girls high school traditionally celebrates its anniversary by staging Chekov's play, but the faculty consider canceling the play because Noriko, a senior, was seen smoking in a coffee shop with students from a rival school.
Theatre series
Two stage productions have been adapted, one at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space in 1994 and another at the Aoyama Round Theatre in 2007 and 2009.
Reception
James Welker thinks the manga "could be included in the lesbian manga canon." Yukari Fujimoto notes the Class S-like setting of Sakura no Sono. The 1990 film won the Best Film awards at the 15th Hochi Film Award and at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival and it was nominated for Best Film at the 14th Japan Academy Prize.
References
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