Movies: Noriaki Tsuchimoto
- 1963
She and He (1963)
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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 ...
- 1987
Hiroshima no pika (1987)
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Video version of the picture book 'Hiroshima no pika', based on the art pieces known as The Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Maruki Toshi...
- 2003
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988 (2003)
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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 wel...
- 1963
An Engineer's Assistant (1963)
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"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 ...
- 1961
Bad Boys (1961)
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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....
- 2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2002)
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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 mo...
- 1971
Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971)
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The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan....
- 1975
The Shiranui Sea (1975)
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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 ...
- 1969
Cuban Lover (1969)
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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 revolutio...
- 1984
Hajike hōsenka (1984)
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Documentary about the illustrations of Tomiyama Taeko depicting the Chikuho coalfield, where Koreans were once imported and forced into hard labor....
- 1964
On the Road : A Document (1964)
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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 acc...
- 1981
The Minamata Mural (1981)
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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 ...
- 1976
Message from Minamata to the World (1976)
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An update to the story of Minamata disease, going up to 1976...
- 1982
Nuclear Scrapbook (1982)
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A film essay about nuclear energy in Japan, composed of newspaper clippings collected in scrapbooks...
- 1969
Prehistory of the Partisans (1969)
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This film documents student preparations for the final phases of the 1969 protests against the renewal of the security treaty....
- 2014
Tsuchimoto Noriaki (2014)
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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 hospit...
- 1980
Fishing Moon (1980)
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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 ...
- 1978
My Town, My Youth (1978)
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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 pop...
- 2004
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls (2004)
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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....
- 1973
Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life (1973)
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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....