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Persona Non Grata (杉原千畝 スギハラチウネ, Sugihara Chiune) is a 2015 Japanese biographical drama film directed by Cellin Gluck. It depicts the life of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who was appointed a vice-consul and later a consul in Lithuania and served there from 1939 to 1940 and who saved lives of some 6,000 Jewish refugees by issuing transit visas to the Japanese Empire.

Persona Non Grata
Poster
Japanese	杉原千畝　スギハラチウネ
Directed by	Cellin Gluck
Written by	Tetsuo Kamata Hiromichi Matsuo
Produced by	Nobuyuki Iinuma Kazutoshi Wadakura
Starring	Toshiaki Karasawa Koyuki
Cinematography	Garry Waller
Edited by	Jim Munro
Music by	Naoki Sato
Production companies	Nippon TV Toho D.N. Dream Partners Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation Dentsu Pony Canyon Yomiuri Shimbun Shogakukan ShoPro JTB Group Chunichi Shimbun BS Nippon Cine Bazar Sapporo Television Broadcasting Miyagi Television Broadcasting Shizuoka Daiichi Television Chūkyō Television Broadcasting Hiroshima Telecasting Fukuoka Broadcasting Corporation Fukui Broadcasting [1]
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	October 13, 2015 (2015-10-13) (World premiere, Kaunas, Lithuania) December 5, 2015 (2015-12-05) (Japan)
Running time	139 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	US$6.3 million[2]

Even though most of the film is set in Interwar Lithuania, various places in Poland were chosen for filming. The Polish cargo ship SS Sołdek also appeared in the movie.

Plot

Chiune Sugihara is a Japanese diplomat working in Lithuania. During World War II, with the help of Dutch diplomat Jan Zwartendijk, he attempts to save many Jews from Nazi Germany by issuing transit visas to Japan. The film depicts Sugihara's life from the period when he was a student in Waseda University.

Cast

• Toshiaki Karasawa – Chiune Sugihara
• Koyuki – Yukiko Sugihara (Chiune's wife)
• Borys Szyc – Pesh (ペシュ Pesshu)
• Agnieszka Grochowska – Irina (イリーナ Irīna)
• Fumiyo Kohinata – Ambassador Oshima
• Cezary Łukaszewicz [pl] – Wolfgang Gudze (グッジェ Gujje)
• Michał Żurawski – Nyiszli (ニシェリ Nisheri)
• Zbigniew Zamachowski – Avraham Goehner (ガノール社長 Ganōru-shachō)
• Andrzej Blumenfeld – Chaim Rosenthal
• Takashi Tsukamoto – Minamikawa (南川欽吾)
• Gaku Hamada - Tatsuo Osako (大迫辰雄 Ōsako Tetsuo)
• Wenanty Nosul – Jan Zwartendijk
• Ken'ichi Takito - Ichiro Sekimitsu (関満一朗 Sekimitsu Ichirō)
• Satoshi Nikaido - Saburo Nei (根井三郎 Nei Saburō)

Production

• Cellin Gluck – Director

Release

As a premiere in Poland, it was an opening film at the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival

The North American premiere was part of the 2016 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) with five screenings, one each at five of the festival venues. The first screening was 31 January 2016 at SCADshow.[3]

Reception

The film grossed US$1.2 million on its opening weekend in Japan.[4]

References

External links

Media related to Persona Non Grata (2015 film) at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Persona Non Grata at IMDb

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