Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies

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

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

The daily life of the citizens of Kabul during the civil war: the bazaar, mosques, the literacy movement awarded honors by UNESCO, women's education,...

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

Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients

Portrait of Japanese youth. Produced for the Japan Foundation.

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...

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

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

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

With Afghan Spring, Noriaki Tsuchimoto widened his focus to the international arena. Working in collaboration with his compatriot, Hiroko Kumagai,...