Persona Non Grata (2015 film)

Persona Non Grata
Poster
Japanese name
Kanji杉原千畝 スギハラチウネ
Directed byCellin Gluck
Written byTetsuo Kamata
Hiromichi Matsuo
Produced byNobuyuki Iinuma
Kazutoshi Wadakura
StarringToshiaki Karasawa
Koyuki
CinematographyGarry Waller
Edited byJim Munro
Music byNaoki Sato
Production
companies
Distributed byToho
Release dates
  • 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

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. The Polish cargo ship SS Sołdek also appeared in the movie.