# Sakura (2024)

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**Original title**: *朽ちないサクラ*
**Runtime**: 119 min
**Genres**: Drama, Mystery
**Directed by**: Hiroto Hara
**Written by**: Shota Gajin, Yoshitatsu Yamada
**Starring**: Hana Sugisaki, Riku Hagiwara, Kosuke Toyohara, Ken Yasuda, Tomoko Fujita, Yuya Endo

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rainy streets of rural Japan at dusk a solitary patrol car siren sounds. 
A murdered college student lies on a wet pavement a police badge nearby. 
Hiroto Hara directs this stark drama.

**Mood tags**: dread, paranoid, raw

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