Noriaki Tsuchimoto
1928 - 2008 (age 79) • Directing
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
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
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
73%
Director
1971
She and He
70%
Editor
1963
Bad Boys
67%
Assistant Director
1961
The Shiranui Sea
77%
Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
1975
Prehistory of the Partisans
56%
Director
1969
Cuban Lover
68%
Producer
1969
On the Road: A Document
62%
Director
1964
An Engineer's Assistant
55%
Writer
1964
Tsuchimoto Noriaki
Self
2014
Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto
2007
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls
Editor
2004
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls
Director
2004
Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985
100%
Director
2003
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988
90%
Director
2003
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988
90%
Writer
2003
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
100%
himself
2002
Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well
Director
1999
Afghan Spring
Director
1989
Minamata — These 30 Years
Director
1987
Hiroshima no pika
Director
1987
Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea
Director
1984
The Stolen Sea
Director
1984
Nuclear Scrapbook
90%
Director
1982
The Minamata Mural
Editor
1981
The Minamata Mural
Director
1981
Fishing Moon
Director
1980
Voices of Young Japan
Writer
1979
Voices of Young Japan
Director
1979
My Town, My Youth
Director
1978
Message from Minamata to the World
Director
1976
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy
Director
1975
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy
Editor
1975
The Shiranui Sea
77%
Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
1975
The Shiranui Sea
77%
Editor
1975
The Shiranui Sea
77%
Director
1975
Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life
Director
1973