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Visas for Life

10/11/2005

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2hrs 9min

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History

,Drama

STORY

World Wat II broke out shortly after diplomat Chiune Sugihara was assigned to Lithuania. Nazi Germany occupied the western half of Poland and began persecuting the Jews. Lithuania was then annexed by the Soviet Union, and the Japanese consulate was ordered to close. Meanwhile, Jewish refugees who had fled Poland flocked to the Japanese consulate, requesting the issuance of Japanese transit visas. Chiune repeatedly sent telegrams to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting permission to issue visas to the Jewish refugees, but received a final notice that the visas could not be issued. However, with only a month left until the departure deadline, Chiune decided to defy the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' orders and issued visas to the Jewish refugees...

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Takashi Sorimachi
  • Naoko Iijima
  • Kazue Fukiishi
  • Masanobu Katsumura
  • Katsuhisa Namase

    Director

  • Takayoshi Watanabe

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
  • Nippon Television Network Corporation

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese

Cast

Takashi Sorimachi

Chiune Sugihara

Naoko Iijima

Yukiko Sugihara

Kazue Fukiishi

Setsuko Kikuchi

Masanobu Katsumura

Mitsuya Takigawa

Katsuhisa Namase

Fumihiko Kikuchi

Masatô Ibu

Mitsuo Ohkubo

Shirō Itō

Yōsuke Matsuoka

Yoji Tanaka

Hidekazu Mashima

Riichi Seike

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