Autumn in Warsaw

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Autumn in Warsaw (Japanese: ワルシャワの秋, Warushawa no aki; Polish: Jesień w Warszawie) is a Japanese-language drama television film written by Masatake Tamukai, directed by Hiroki Hayashi, and produced by Takahiro Kasagi. It was produced and filmed in Japan by the Kansai Telecasting Corporation. It was aired on 23 December 2003. The film was based on actual events of 1922, when the cooperation of the Polish Committee of Rescue of Children from the Far East, and the Japanese Red Cross Society led to the transportation of Polish orphans from Russian Siberia to Japan, before they could have been relocated to Poland.^[1][2]

In 1922, the Polish Committee of Rescue of Children from the Far East in agreement with the government of Japan, relocates Polish orphans from Russian Siberia to Osaka, Japan, before they could have been relocated to Poland. They were children of people banished there by the government of the Russian Empire.^[1]

• Yuko Takeuchi as Yoko Aoki
  • Keiko Kishi as older Yoko
• Kenji Sakaguchi as Takanori Honda
• Mirai Yamamoto as Noriko
• Mitsuru Fukikoshi as doctor Kakinuma
• Takehiro Hira as Nobuyuki Oramura
• Ayumi Ishida as Ritsu Shizuya
• Anna Romantowska as Anna Bielkiewicz
• Keiju Kobayashi as Hirashima
• Ignacy Zalewski as Kamil Kaczyński and Lew Kaczyński
• Agnieszka Pikała as Karolina
• Daniel Skowroński as Zalewski
• Kanako Irie
• Keiju Kobayashi
• Yūma Kusakawa
• Katsuyuki Murai
• Miho Ninagawa
• Megumi Sato
• Hiroyuki Sumiwaka

The film was based on actual events of 1922, when the cooperation of the Polish Committee of Rescue of Children from the Far East, and the Japanese Red Cross Society led to the transportation of Polish orphans from Russian Siberia to Japan, before they could have been relocated to Poland. The film was written by Masatake Tamukai, directed by Hiroki Hayashi, and produced by Takahiro Kasagi. The music was done by Toshiyuki Honda. It was produced and filmed in Japan by the Kansai Telecasting Corporation. It was aired on 23 December 2003.^[1][2] The movie was made for the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the Kansai Telecasting Corporation.^[3]

• Autumn in Warsaw at the IMDb