Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies

"In my filmography, An Engineer’s Assistant (1963) is called my “first film.” This PR film on the safety of the Japanese National...

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

Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients

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

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

Tsuchimoto made this travelogue film in 1967, documenting a five-month journey from the port city of Nakhodka on the coast of the Sea of Japan, to...

Documentary on Chua Swee­-Lin, a Malaysian exchange student who was threatened with deportation over his protest against the separation and...

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...

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

In 1994, Minamata disease victims held an exhibition in Tokyo where portraits of the all 1080 people who had died of the disease by that time were...