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DVD release coming in Spring 2010
Japanese diplomat sacrifices his own career to save lives
 The
story of an extraordinary Japanese diplomat who sacrificed his own
diplomatic career during World War II to write the precious visas
that saved an estimated 2,000 to 6,000 lives.
At 5:15 one summer morning in 1940, Chiune Sugihara,
Japan's Consul-General in Lithuania, awoke to the sound of over
200 people filling the crowded street outside his Consulate.
Consul Sugihara immediately hid his wife and children, fearing
an attack.
It did not take him long to realize that those outside were Jews
hoping to get visas permitting them to escape Nazi-occupied Europe.
 While
American Consuls through the neutral world were instructed not to
grant such visas, the Japanese Consul Sugihara took it upon himself,
in direct defiance of his government's orders, to do just that,
working day and night to issue an estimated 1600 visas.
Credits
Director: Katsumi Ohyama
Producers: Tetsuo Suzuki (Fuji TV), Naonori
Kawamura and Toshio Ozawa (Kazumo
Co., Ltd)
Original Story: Yukiko Sugihara
Script: Sentaro Kubota
Production: Mamoru Sasaki
Music: Kensaku Tanikawa, sung by Yuka
Kamebuchi
Cinematography: Takumi Seki & Satoshi
Furutani
Starring: Go Kato, Kumiko
Akiyoshi, Misako Konno, Mizuho
Suzuki, Jiro Karasawa
Copyright © 1992 Kazumo Co. Ltd.
For More Information
Contact Marty Gross Film Productions, Inc. 416.536.3355 or
email videos@martygrossfilms.com
for more information about purchasing or licensing this film for
broadcast.
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