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...
Takayoshi Watanabe
Director
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
The Last Rifleman66%
The Hill76%
Eichmann59%
Waiting for Anya62%
Emperor61%
The Counterfeit Traitor64%
Battle of the Bulge68%
Radium Girls65%
Palestine 3678%
Darkest Hour73%
Zulu74%
Oranges and Sunshine69%
Waterloo70%
Churchill62%
Tora! Tora! Tora!71%
Mansfield Park60%
Jimmy's Hall67%
55 Days at Peking68%
The Devil's Brigade63%
Official Secrets72%
