Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies

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...

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

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

A medical perspective of Minamata disease in three parts - 1) Progress of Research; 2) Pathology and Symptoms; 3) Clinical Field Trials

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,...