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Persona Non Grata (2015 film)

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Wikipedia article




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| director = Cellin Gluck

| producer = Nobuyuki Iinuma
Kazutoshi Wadakura

| writer = Tetsuo Kamata
Hiromichi Matsuo

| starring = Toshiaki Karasawa
Koyuki

| music = Naoki Sato

| cinematography = Garry Waller

| editing = Jim Munro

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| distributor = Toho

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| runtime = 139 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

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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.

Even though most of the film is set in Interwar Lithuania, various places in Poland were chosen for filming. The Polish cargo ship SS 'Sodek' 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 ( 'Pesshu')

*Agnieszka Grochowska Irina ( 'Irna')

*Fumiyo Kohinata Ambassador Oshima

* Wolfgang Gudze ( 'Gujje')

*Micha urawski Nyiszli ( 'Nisheri')

*Zbigniew Zamachowski Avraham Goehner ( 'Ganru-shach')

*Andrzej Blumenfeld Chaim Rosenthal

*Takashi Tsukamoto Minamikawa ()

*Gaku Hamada - Tatsuo Osako ( 'sako Tetsuo')

*Wenanty Nosul Jan Zwartendijk

*Ken'ichi Takito - Ichiro Sekimitsu ( 'Sekimitsu Ichir')

*Satoshi Nikaido - Saburo Nei ( 'Nei Sabur')

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.

Reception



The film grossed on its opening weekend in Japan.

References




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