Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies

  • 1978
    My Town, My Youth

    My Town, My Youth

    My Town, My Youth

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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...

    My Town, My Youth
  • 1963
    She and He

    She and He

    She and He

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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...

    She and He
  • 1971
    Minamata: The Victims and Their World

    Minamata: The Victims and Their World

    Minamata: The Victims and Their World

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

    Minamata: The Victims and Their World
  • 1961
    Bad Boys

    Bad Boys

    Bad Boys

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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...

    Bad Boys
  • 2003
    Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

    Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

    Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

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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...

    Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988
  • 2002
    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

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    Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30...

    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
  • 1984
    Hajike hōsenka

    Hajike hōsenka

    Hajike hōsenka

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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.

    Hajike hōsenka
  • 1969
    Cuban Lover

    Cuban Lover

    Cuban Lover

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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...

    Cuban Lover
  • 1981
    The Minamata Mural

    The Minamata Mural

    The Minamata Mural

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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...

    The Minamata Mural
  • 1964
    On the Road : A Document

    On the Road : A Document

    On the Road : A Document

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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...

    On the Road : A Document
  • 2014
    Tsuchimoto Noriaki

    Tsuchimoto Noriaki

    Tsuchimoto Noriaki

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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...

    Tsuchimoto Noriaki
  • 1963
    An Engineer's Assistant

    An Engineer's Assistant

    An Engineer's Assistant

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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...

    An Engineer's Assistant
  • 1975
    The Shiranui Sea

    The Shiranui Sea

    The Shiranui Sea

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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...

    The Shiranui Sea
  • 2007
    Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto

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

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

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

    Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto
  • 2004
    Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls

    Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls

    Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls

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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...

    Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls
  • 1965
    Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin

    Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin

    Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin

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

    Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin
  • 1975
    Minamata Disease: A Trilogy

    Minamata Disease: A Trilogy

    Minamata Disease: A Trilogy

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

    Minamata Disease: A Trilogy
  • 1982
    Nuclear Scrapbook

    Nuclear Scrapbook

    Nuclear Scrapbook

    01982HD

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

    Nuclear Scrapbook
  • 1980
    Fishing Moon

    Fishing Moon

    Fishing Moon

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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...

    Fishing Moon
  • 1973
    Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life

    Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life

    Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life

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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...

    Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life