Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies

Since Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971), director Tsuchimoto Noriaki has made numerous works depicting people living in Minamata. This...

The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.

Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients

An update to the story of Minamata disease, going up to 1976

A record of the stories of patients suffering from Minamata disease, 30 years after its discovery

Umitori takes place in Shimokita Peninsula on the northern edge of the mainland, which was becoming a “nuclear energy peninsula”,...

Documentary on the life of Teruo Kawamoto, a leader of Minamata disease activism

This film documents student preparations for the final phases of the 1969 protests against the renewal of the security treaty.

Portrait of Japanese youth. Produced for the Japan Foundation.

My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many...

Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for...

Noriaki Tsuchimoto, a documentary filmmaker known for his series films on Minamata disease, travelled to Afghanistan in 1988 for the production of...