Details
Title: 六千人の命のビザ
Title (romaji): Rokusen Nin no Inochi no Visa
Also known as: Visas for 6,000 Lives
Tagline: 日本のシンドラー杉原千畝物語
Format: Tanpatsu
Genre: Historical WWII drama
Viewership rating: 16.0
Broadcast network: YTV
Broadcast period: 2005-Oct-11
Air time: 21:00 to 23:09
Synopsis
This tanpatsu is based on the novel of the same name, written by Sugihara Yukiko (ISBN 4811703073). Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara, the Japanese consular official serving in Lithuania, saved the second largest number of Jews in the Holocaust (only Oskar Schindler saved more.) He issued more than 2,000 visas to Polish refugees. This resulted in saving more than 6,000 lives. It is estimated that if the children and grandchildren of people who were saved by Sugihara were counted, there would be more than 40,000 people worldwide who owe their lives to the Sugiharas.
Cast
Sorimachi Takashi as Sugihara Chiune (1900-1-1 to 1986-7-31)
Iijima Naoko as Sugihara Yukiko
Fukiishi Kazue as Kikuchi Setsuko
Katsumura Masanobu as Takigawa Mitsuya
Namase Katsuhisa as Kikuchi Fumihiko
Ibu Masato as Okubo Mitsuo
Ito Shiro as Matsuoka Yosuke
Production Credits
Original writing: Sugihara Yukiko (杉原幸子)
Screenwriter:
Chief producer: Tanaka Toshikazu (田中壽一)
Producers: Okamoto Koichi (岡本浩一), Akamine Kazuhiko (赤嶺和彦), Fujita Yoshinori (藤田義則)
Director:
Music: Andrea Morricone, from the movie Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1989)
