Visas and Virtue

Visas and Virtue
One-sheet photography: Dennis Mukai
Directed byChris Tashima
Written byChris Tashima
Tom Donaldson
Tim Toyama (play)
Produced byChris Donahue
Tim Toyama
StarringChris Tashima
Susan Fukuda
Diana Georger
Lawrence Craig
Narrated byShizuko Hoshi
CinematographyHiro Narita
Edited byIrvin Paik
Music byScott Nagatani
Production
company
Release date
  • 1997 (1997)
Running time
26 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Visas and Virtue is a 1997 narrative short film directed by Chris Tashima and starring Chris Tashima, Susan Fukuda, Diana Georger and Lawrence Craig. It was inspired by the true story of Holocaust rescuer Chiune "Sempo" Sugihara, who is known as "The Japanese Schindler". Sugihara issued over 2,000 transit visas to Polish and Lithuanian Jews from his consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, in August 1940, in defiance of his own government (Japan), thereby allowing an estimated 6,000 individuals to escape the impending Holocaust.


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