Persona Non Grata (2015 film)

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 byCellin Gluck
Produced byNobuyuki Iinuma
Kazutoshi Wadakura
Written byTetsuo Kamata
Hiromichi Matsuo
StarringToshiaki Karasawa
Koyuki
Music byNaoki Sato
CinematographyGarry Waller
Edited byJim Munro
Production
company
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • October 13, 2015 (2015-10-13) (World premiere, Kaunas, Lithuania)
  • December 5, 2015 (2015-12-05) (Japan)
Running time
139 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box officeUS$6.3 million[2]

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

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


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