Persona Non Grata (2015 film)
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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.
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Persona Non Grata | |
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Japanese name | |
Kanji | 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 |
Release dates | |
Running time | 139 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Box office | US$6.3 million[2] |
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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.