Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Birthday: 1928-12-11

Place of Birth: Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Biography: Noriaki Tsuchimoto was a Japanese documentary film director known for his films on Minamata disease and examinations of the effects of modernization on Asia. Tsuchimoto and Shinsuke Ogawa have been called the "two figures [that] tower over the landscape of Japanese documentary."

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Tsuchimoto Noriaki
Tsuchimoto Noriaki

Noriaki Tsuchimoto, a documentary filmmaker known for his series films on Minamata disease, travelle...

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The Shiranui Sea
The Shiranui Sea

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso...

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Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Documentary about the great Japanese documentary maker Tsuchimoto Noriaki made a couple of years bef...

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Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group o...

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