Directing

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Born December 11, 1928 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."

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Biography

Directed Films

Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls

Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985

Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well

Minamata — These 30 Years

Hiroshima no pika

Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea

The Stolen Sea

Nuclear Scrapbook

The Minamata Mural

Fishing Moon

My Town, My Youth

Message from Minamata to the World

Minamata Disease: A Trilogy

The Shiranui Sea

Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life

Minamata Report 1 - The Central Pollution Board

Minamata: The Victims and Their World

Prehistory of the Partisans

The World of the Siberians

Minamata no ko wa ikiteiru

Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin

An Engineer's Assistant

On the Road: A Document

Also Appeared In

Tsuchimoto Noriaki

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

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

The Shiranui Sea