Noriaki Tsuchimoto

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Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Directing December 11, 1928

Gifu Prefecture, Japan

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 Shinsu…

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Minamata: The Victims and Their World

Minamata: The Victims and Their World

7.3 1971 Movie
She and He

She and He

7.0 1963 Movie
Bad Boys

Bad Boys

6.7 1961 Movie
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

9.0 2003 Movie
On the Road: A Document

On the Road: A Document

6.2 1964 Movie
Prehistory of the Partisans

Prehistory of the Partisans

5.6 1969 Movie
The Shiranui Sea

The Shiranui Sea

7.7 1975 Movie
Cuban Lover

Cuban Lover

6.8 1969 Movie
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

10.0 2002 Movie
An Engineer's Assistant

An Engineer's Assistant

5.5 1964 Movie
Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985

Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985

10.0 2003 Movie
The Minamata Mural

The Minamata Mural

1981 Movie

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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."

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2014
    Tsuchimoto Noriaki

    Movie Self

  2. 2007
    Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto

    Movie

  3. 2004
    Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls

    Movie Editor

  4. 2003
    Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985

    Movie Director

  5. 2003
    Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

    Movie Director

  6. 2002
    Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

    Movie himself

  7. 1999
    Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well

    Movie Director

  8. 1989
    Afghan Spring

    Movie Director

  9. 1987
    Minamata — These 30 Years

    Movie Director

  10. 1987
    Hiroshima no pika

    Movie Director

  11. 1984
    Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea

    Movie Director

  12. 1984
    The Stolen Sea

    Movie Director

  13. 1982
    Nuclear Scrapbook

    Movie Director

  14. 1981
    The Minamata Mural

    Movie Editor

  15. 1980
    Fishing Moon

    Movie Director

  16. 1979
    Voices of Young Japan

    Movie Director

More credits
  1. 1978
    My Town, My Youth

    Movie Director

  2. 1976
    Message from Minamata to the World

    Movie Director

  3. 1975
    Minamata Disease: A Trilogy

    Movie Director

  4. 1975
    The Shiranui Sea

    Movie Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

  5. 1973
    Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life

    Movie Director

  6. 1973
    Minamata Report 1 - The Central Pollution Board

    Movie Director

  7. 1971
    Minamata: The Victims and Their World

    Movie Director

  8. 1969
    Prehistory of the Partisans

    Movie Director

  9. 1969
    Cuban Lover

    Movie Producer

  10. 1968
    The World of the Siberians

    Movie Director

  11. 1965
    Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin

    Movie Director

  12. 1965
    Minamata no ko wa ikiteiru

    Movie Director

  13. 1964
    An Engineer's Assistant

    Movie Director

  14. 1964
    On the Road: A Document

    Movie Director

  15. 1963
    She and He

    Movie Editor

  16. 1961
    Bad Boys

    Movie Assistant Director