- Summary
- "Fleeing from Nazi occupied Europe, thousands of Jewish refugees were able to escape by train across Russia and then by boat to Japan. This was due to a Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, working in Lithuania who issued transit visas contrary to his government's instructions. Many years later a Japanese writer, Akira Kitade, inherits a photo album with pictures of some of these refugees. He sets out on a mission to discover what became of these refugees. We follow him on his journey from Japan to the USA. The film features interviews with some of the "Sugihara Survivors" and their families" --Container.
- Variant Title
- Sugihara survivors : Jewish and Japanese, past and future
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Los Angles, CA : Seventh Art Releasing, [2019]
- Locale
- Japan
Lithuania
- Other Authors/Editors
- Kajioka, Junichi, film producer, screenwriter, film director.
Kitade, Akira, 1944- on-screen participant.
Leon, Masha, on-screen participant.
Fishoff, Benjamin, on-screen participant.
Smoller, Sylvia, on-screen participant.
Tokayer, Marvin, 1936- on-screen participant.
Crawley, Judith, on-screen participant.
Kusaka, Sumio, on-screen participant.
Loewenberg, Shira, on-screen participant.
Melamed, Leo, on-screen participant.
Reed, David, on-screen participant.
Reed, Deborah, on-screen participant.
Reed, Shelley, 1958- on-screen participant.
Fukuoka, Yasuhiko, composer.
- Notes
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Title from container, disc.
Originally released as a documentary film in 2017.
"Authorized for educational use" --Container.
Music by Yasuhiko Fukuoka.
Akira Kitade, Masha Leon, Benjamin Fishoff, Sylvia Smoller, Marvin Tokayer, Judith Crawley, Sumio Kusaka, Shira Loewenberg, Leo Melamed, David Reed, Deborah Reed, Shelley Reed.
In English and Japanese with English subtitles.
