Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies

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

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,...

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

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

My Town, My Youth is an inspiring film shot twenty years after the official recognition of the disease and focuses on a group of young people (many...

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,...

A film essay about nuclear energy in Japan, composed of newspaper clippings collected in scrapbooks

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...

Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients

Portrait of Japanese youth. Produced for the Japan Foundation.