Sakuran first published by Film4 “Cry and you lose. Love and you lose. Win and you lose.” This is what Seiji (Masanobu Ando) tells Kiyoha (Anna Tsuchiya) of her fragile status as a courtesan in 1700s Japan – and as both a whore’s son himself and Head Clerk at the Tamagikuya brothel in the Yoshiwara…
