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‘Sakura’: A family held together by dogged devotion

Film / Reviews Nov 11, 2020

‘Sakura’: A family held together by dogged devotion

by James Hadfield

Hitoshi Yazaki turns Kana Nishino’s novel about a family overcoming tragedy with the help of their dog into an amiable but wildly uneven drama.

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