Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls (2004)

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 displayed. ...

Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985 (2003)

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, and English school. Scenes of live and self-defense in nearby farm villages. The lives of war orphans. And ...

Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988 (2003)

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the still-intact museum in 1988: ancient Greco-Roman art and antiquitied of Hellenistic civilization, as well as B ...

Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well (1999)

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

Afghan Spring (1989)

With Afghan Spring, Noriaki Tsuchimoto widened his focus to the international arena. Working in collaboration with his compatriot, Hiroko Kumagai, and Afghan film-maker, Abdul Latif, he examined society and politics in Afghanistan af the time of the Soviet ...

Minamata — These 30 Years (1987)

A record of the stories of patients suffering from Minamata disease, 30 years after its discovery ...

Hiroshima no pika (1987)

Video version of the picture book 'Hiroshima no pika', based on the art pieces known as The Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Maruki Toshi ...

Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea (1984)

Having spent her childhood in Dalian and Harbin in the former state of Manchukuo, Taeko Tomiyama carried within her the conviction: "As an Asian, as a woman, I will begin from the margins of beauty." Noriaki Tsuchimoto, on the other hand, directed numerous ...

The Stolen Sea (1984)

Umitori takes place in Shimokita Peninsula on the northern edge of the mainland, which was becoming a "nuclear energy peninsula", undergoing tremendous development and serving as the home port for Mutsu, a nuclear­-powered ship. Focusing on the fishermen ...

Nuclear Scrapbook (1982)

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

The Minamata Mural (1981)

After a handful of groundbreaking films detailing the tragedy and suffering of the mercury-poisoned Japanese town of Minamata, documentary master Noriaki Tsuchimoto revisits the subject of Minamata through the eyes of the celebrated husband-and-wife painti ...

Fishing Moon (1980)

Since Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971), director Tsuchimoto Noriaki has made numerous works depicting people living in Minamata. This work for children is a visual fantasy poetically depicting the moon that governs the ocean's tides, the fisher ...

Voices of Young Japan (1979)

Portrait of Japanese youth. Produced for the Japan Foundation. ...

My Town, My Youth (1978)

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 born with the disease) as they mobilise to keep their cause visible by organising a concert by the popular e ...

Message from Minamata to the World (1976)

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

Minamata Disease: A Trilogy (1975)

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

The Shiranui Sea (1975)

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in the Yatsushiro Sea which, when eaten by the local popula ...

Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life (1973)

Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for dumping toxic water into Minamata Bay) for life-long medical care and compensation. ...

Minamata Report 1 - The Central Pollution Board (1973)

Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971)

The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan. ...

Prehistory of the Partisans (1969)

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

Cuban Lover (1969)

Japanese fishery instructor Akira is attracted to beautiful Cuban young girl Martia. Though initially rejected, Akira still returns with Martia to her homeland. On the way he sees a post-revolution Cuba, cultivating fields, relics from the revolution, arm ...

The World of the Siberians (1968)

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 Moscow on the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Beautifully shot in colour, Tsuchimoto moves the ca ...

Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin (1965)

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

Minamata no ko wa ikiteiru (1965)

Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients ...

An Engineer's Assistant (1964)

"In my filmography, An Engineer's Assistant (1963) is called my "first film." This PR film on the safety of the Japanese National Railways was designed to be "self-criticism" after the big accident on the Joban line at Mikawashima Station, which had occurr ...

On the Road: A Document (1964)

Japanese documentary from 1964 directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. The film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics and the difficulties they face: construction obstructing traffic, poor working conditions, numerous accidents ...

She and He (1963)

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life shrinks in scope and intimacy. She finds new interests, new love, and a greater sense of her place in the world. ...

Bad Boys (1961)

A young delinquent takes part in a robbery and is sentenced to a juvenile detention center, where he clashes with other youths and reflects on his life experiences. ...

Tsuchimoto Noriaki (2014)

Noriaki Tsuchimoto, a documentary filmmaker known for his series films on Minamata disease, travelled to Afghanistan in 1988 for the production of the film "Afghan Spiring", during which he developed alcoholism. In 1996, after several years of hospitalizat ...

Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto (2007)

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

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2002)

Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30 years of their lives making films for one man-Ogawa Shinsuke. Members of Ogawa Pro filmed the student movement ...

The Shiranui Sea (1975)

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in the Yatsushiro Sea which, when eaten by the local popula ...