Person

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Directing · 1928–2008 · Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Biography

Noriaki Tsuchimoto was a Japanese documentary film director known for his films on Minamata disease and examinations of the effects of modernization on Asia. Tsuchimoto and Shinsuke Ogawa have been called the "two figures [that] tower over the landscape of Japanese documentary."

Known for

Filmography

2014Tsuchimoto NoriakiSelf
2007Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto
2004Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected SoulsEditor
2003Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985Director
2003Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988Writer
2002Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productionshimself
1999Minamata: The Person Who Dug the WellDirector
1989Afghan SpringDirector
1987Minamata — These 30 YearsDirector
1987Hiroshima no pikaDirector
1984Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My KoreaDirector
1984The Stolen SeaDirector
1982Nuclear ScrapbookDirector
1981The Minamata MuralEditor
1980Fishing MoonDirector
1979Voices of Young JapanWriter
1978My Town, My YouthDirector
1976Message from Minamata to the WorldDirector
1975Minamata Disease: A TrilogyDirector
1975The Shiranui SeaSelf - Interviewer (uncredited)
1973Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for LifeDirector
1973Minamata Report 1 - The Central Pollution BoardDirector
1971Minamata: The Victims and Their WorldDirector
1969Prehistory of the PartisansDirector
1969Cuban LoverProducer
1968The World of the SiberiansDirector
1965Minamata no ko wa ikiteiruDirector
1965Exchange Student Chua Swee LinDirector
1964An Engineer's AssistantDirector
1964On the Road: A DocumentDirector
1963She and HeEditor
1961Bad BoysAssistant Director

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