Persona Non Grata (2015 film)

Persona Non Grata
Persona Non Grata
	Poster
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;
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	October 13, 2015 (World premiere, Kaunas, Lithuania); December 5, 2015 (Japan);
Running time	139 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Box office	US$6.3 million

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.

Even though most of the film is set in Interwar Lithuania, various places in Poland were chosen for filming.

Plot

Chiune Sugihara (Toshiaki Karasawa) 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 Ohashi
Cezary Łukaszewicz – Wolfgang Gudze (グッジェ Gujje)
Michal Zurawski – 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

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

^ "Persona Non Grata Production Committee Members as According to Google Translate". Google Translate.
^ "Sugihara Chiune (Persona Non Grata)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
^ AJFF Program Guide, http://ajff.org/film/persona-non-grata
^ Mark Schilling (December 7, 2015). "'Spectre' Opens On Top At Japanese Box Office". variety.com. Retrieved December 7, 2015.

External links

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[1] "Persona Non Grata Production Committee Members as According to Google Translate". Google Translate.

[boxofficemojo-2] "Sugihara Chiune (Persona Non Grata)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved March 10, 2016.

[3] AJFF Program Guide, http://ajff.org/film/persona-non-grata

[variety-4] Mark Schilling (December 7, 2015). "'Spectre' Opens On Top At Japanese Box Office". variety.com. Retrieved December 7, 2015.

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