Sakura traces the culture and undercurrents of the city of Osaka, capturing individuals and sites as varied as the famous Sakura paint and pastel factory, UNESCO-recognized Bunraku theater, late pre-eminent Japanese architect Kira Kurosawa's police prefect, the Yamazaki Suntory Distillery and the Nobel Prize-winning molecular scientist Sonya Yamanaka, during the anticipated moment of the blossoming of cherry trees in Japan.