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