Category:MoviePlot Area:Japan Years:2015 Director:Celine Gluck Starring:Toshiaki Karasawa Yuki Ko Boris Schick Agnieszka Grochowska Fumiyo Kohinata Cesare Lukaszewicz Michael Zurawski Takashi Tsukamoto Andrzej Blumenfeld Kenichi Takito Zebino Zamashuski
In the mid-20th century, when the clouds were thick with sorrow, Chimu Sugihara (played by Toshiaki Karasawa), who came from an ordinary Japanese family, entered the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs with his excellent language talent and intelligence analysis ability, and was sent to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the puppet Manchukuo. He demonstrated his strength in his work and was also judged as an "unwelcome person" by the Soviet Union. In 1939, Chimu Sugihara went to the embassy in Lithuania to monitor the movements of major European powers at any time. Not long after, Germany launched a lightning attack on Poland, and the destructive and far-reaching World War II kicked off immediately. Due to the brutal ethnic cleansing, thousands of Jews became refugees. They helped the elderly and children, looking for all possible and slim opportunities for survival. In the end, they flocked to the Japanese Embassy in Lithuania, begging Chimu Sugihara to issue transit visas to escape. Forced by the alliance with Germany, the Japanese side rejected the refugees' request. Standing at the intersection of national interests and humanity, Chimu Sugihara made a major decision...
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