Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies
- 1978
My Town, My Youth
My Town, My Youth01978HD
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...
- 1963
She and He
She and He6.71963HD
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...
- 1971
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
Minamata: The Victims and Their World7.11971HD
The first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.
- 1961
Bad Boys
Bad Boys61961HD
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...
- 2003
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988
Traces: The Kabul Museum 198802003HD
The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the...
- 2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions02002HD
Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30...
- 1984
Hajike hōsenka
Hajike hōsenka01984HD
Documentary about the illustrations of Tomiyama Taeko depicting the Chikuho coalfield, where Koreans were once imported and forced into hard labor.
- 1969
Cuban Lover
Cuban Lover6.81969HD
Japanese fishery instructor Akira is attracted to beautiful Cuban young girl Martia. Though initially rejected, Akira still returns with Martia to...
- 1981
The Minamata Mural
The Minamata Mural01981HD
After a handful of groundbreaking films detailing the tragedy and suffering of the mercury-poisoned Japanese town of Minamata, documentary master...
- 1964
On the Road : A Document
On the Road : A Document5.31964HD
Japanese documentary from 1964 directed by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. The film focuses on the taxi drivers of Tokyo in the year before the Tokyo Olympics...
- 2014
Tsuchimoto Noriaki
Tsuchimoto Noriaki02014HD
Noriaki Tsuchimoto, a documentary filmmaker known for his series films on Minamata disease, travelled to Afghanistan in 1988 for the production of...
- 1963
An Engineer's Assistant
An Engineer's Assistant51963HD
"In my filmography, An Engineer’s Assistant (1963) is called my “first film.” This PR film on the safety of the Japanese National...
- 1975
The Shiranui Sea
The Shiranui Sea7.21975HD
The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly...
- 2007
Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto02007HD
Documentary about the great Japanese documentary maker Tsuchimoto Noriaki made a couple of years before his death.
- 2004
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls02004HD
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...
- 1965
Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin
Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin01965HD
Documentary on Chua Swee-Lin, a Malaysian exchange student who was threatened with deportation over his protest against the separation and...
- 1975
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy01975HD
A medical perspective of Minamata disease in three parts - 1) Progress of Research; 2) Pathology and Symptoms; 3) Clinical Field Trials
- 1982
Nuclear Scrapbook
Nuclear Scrapbook01982HD
A film essay about nuclear energy in Japan, composed of newspaper clippings collected in scrapbooks
- 1980
Fishing Moon
Fishing Moon01980HD
Since Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971), director Tsuchimoto Noriaki has made numerous works depicting people living in Minamata. This...
- 1973
Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life
Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life01973HD
Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for...