Junichi Kajioka, an actor turned producer, turned director sheds light on a rather unknown aspect of Japanese and Jewish history, during WW2, concerning Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese acting consul in the then Lithuanian capital Kaunas and Tatsuo Osako, an official of Japan Tourist Bureau. Sugihara issued visas in defiance of the Japanese government to allow thousands of Jewish refugees to travel to Japan via the former Soviet Union, so they could escape from the Holocaust, and Osako repeatedly traveled across the Sea of Japan to help transfer these refugees to Japan. Furthermore, the documentary focuses on Akira Kitade, a man who has published a research named “Visas of Life and the Epic Journey — How the Sugihara Survivors Reached Japan,” has traced Osako’s trips, and is currently searching for the people the two Japanese saved, and their descendants.
Kajioka presents this story through Kitade’s travels and a number of...
Kajioka presents this story through Kitade’s travels and a number of...
- 11/11/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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