Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies

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

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

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

Having spent her childhood in Dalian and Harbin in the former state of Manchukuo, Taeko Tomiyama carried within her the conviction: “As an...

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

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

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...

Portrait of Japanese youth. Produced for the Japan Foundation.

Documentary about the great Japanese documentary maker Tsuchimoto Noriaki made a couple of years before his death.

Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients

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