Sugihara - Conspiracy of Kindness
by Robert Kirk
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Actor: Benjamin Fishoff, Hiroki Sugihara, Neil Ross, Rabbi Moses Zupnik, Susan BlumanDirector: Robert Kirk
Cinematographer: Paul Dougherty
Writer: Robert Kirk
Editor: Matt Stevenson
Producer: Alan Ett
Producer: David Rubinson
Producer: Diane Estelle Vicari
Producer: Norio Hayashi
Producer: Shozo Katsuta
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), PCM Mono
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 103 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Wgbh / Pbs
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DVD Review: Being a Good Person is Far Better Than Being a Hero
Summary: 5 Stars
Chiune Sugihara (1900-1986) was a truly good person. He demonstrated courage and compassion when both were sorely needed.
One seemingly small incident set the wheels in motion for Sugihara's mission to save lives during the Second World War. When he lent money to a young boy who was in dire need, the boy invited the Sugiharas to celebrate Hanukkah with his family.
Chiune Sugihara, when lighting the traditional candle is moved by the plight of his kind host family, living amidst anti-Semitism and cruelty in Lithuania. His lighting that candle would in turn spark his determination to save as many lives as he could. He became that ray of light to many during the Dark Days of the Holocaust.
Sugihara was a diplomat from Japan stationed in Lithuania in 1940. A gifted, multilingual man, he was well suited for his government post. At the time he had three small sons and other relatives living in the same house. Crowds of people regularly gathered at his door, imploring him to help them escape the atrocities of the Holocaust. Sugihara wrote the Japanese Consulate imploring them to issue visas to the Eastern Europeans. He was turned down each time, so he took matters into his own hands. He wrote out visas and signed each one personally. He stayed up far into the night for many nights issuing visas and ensuring the safety of those who received them. Upon handing each person their visa, he wished them well.
In 1940, the Germans and Russians had occupied Lithuania. By the time they had arrived, many of their would be prisoners had escaped, seeking asylum in Japan courtesy of Chiune Sugihara.
By the close of the war, Sugihara had to say goodbye to his family to work in Russia. He naturally feared for his life, so he worked in Russia under an alias. He lived in squalor and subsisted on boiled potatoes.
Over the years, Chiune Sugihara wondered about the fates of the people whose lives he had saved. In this film, the son of a Sugihara Survivor thanks Sugihara's wife. Expect this very moving scene to make you cry.
Hearing this story of compassion told and seeing the faces of the people directly involved makes this very compelling. It is far better to be a good person than a hero; a good person acts out of their heart and conscience and is guided by compassion whereas heroes are more often than not regarded as superhuman; are often warriors and/or war casualties and heroes seek personal return and accolades which fly in the face of geniune compassion. Chiune Sugihara lived by Pete Seeger's credo which is inscribed on Pete Seeger's banjo: "This instrument surrounds hatred with love and destroys it." Chiune Sugihara, by his acts of selfless compassion with no thought of praise or return surrounded hatred, enmity and cruelty with love and amity and destroyed it. In so doing, he saved the lives of thousands of people.
You'll also want to read Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story and The Miracle Visas and In Search of Sugihara: The Elusive Japanese Diplomat Who Risked his Life to Rescue 10,000 Jews From the Holocaust
DVD Review: Motivating story
Summary: 5 Stars
I enjoyed this story so much that I bought another DVD to loan to friends so they could appreciate Sugihara.DVD Review: Sugihara
Summary: 5 Stars
Extraordinary recounting of the efforts of a Japanese diplomat during WWII. It was a delightful revelation for me since I'd never heard of the man or the incidents before.DVD Review: Sugihara Conspiracy of Kindness
Summary: 5 Stars
Sugihara - Conspiracy of Kindness This is an amazing story of how one man's actions saved the lives of thousands of people during the Holocaust. Mr. Sugihara defied his own country and wrote over 2,000 visas to allow Jews to be saved from certain death. It was very inspiring to learn about some one who did the right thing when it seemed like the rest of the world had lost its' sense of humanity. Mr. Sugihara is a hero for all generations.DVD Review: A little known but very imporant part of history
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a story that our family found fascinating, both in the amazing story of a man who made difficult choices to get Jews out of Poland, and at our total lack of knowledge of the events. It is every bit as compelling as Schindler's List, yet I doubt if there is even a tiny fraction our our country who even knew he existed.
Description of Sugihara - Conspiracy of Kindness
Discover the Impact of One Man's Extraordinary Act of CourageIn the fall of 1939 Hitler's murderous wave was sweeping through Eastern Europe. In the face of the Nazi onslaught, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara made a decision that would change his life and thousands of others. With no possible hope for reward and at great risk to his family and career, Sugihara acted on his innermost beliefs and used his diplomatic power to rescue desperate Jewish refugees.
As Japanese Consul to Lithuania, Sugihara defied Tokyo authorities by writing transit visas that were the sole remaining hope of Jews facing extermination. More than 2,000 Sugihara-stamped passports allowed hundreds of families to flee Europe through Russia to Japan and safe havens abroad. Today it is estimated that at least 40,000 people owe their existence to Sugihara's heroism.
Through unprecedented access to Sugihara's family and their personal home movies, photos, and papers, and interviews with Sugihara survivors and their descendants, viewers will discover an inspiring, little known story of personal courage, sacrifice, and dedication.
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