Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Known for: Directing
Born: December 11, 1928, Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Died: June 24, 2008
Movies: 31

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."

Best-Known Movies

7.3

Minamata: The Victims and Their World

1971

7.7

The Shiranui Sea

1975

6.8

Cuban Lover

1969

6.2

On the Road: A Document

1964

5.6

Prehistory of the Partisans

1969

5.5

An Engineer's Assistant

1964

10.0

Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

2002

9.0

Nuclear Scrapbook

1982

10.0

Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin

1965

10.0

Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985

2003

Filmography

2014	Tsuchimoto Noriaki	Self
2007	Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto
2002	Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions	himself
1975	The Shiranui Sea	Self - Interviewer (uncredited)

Directing, Writing & Producing

2004	Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls	Director
2003	Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985	Director
2003	Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988	Writer, Director
1999	Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well	Director
1989	Afghan Spring	Director
1987	Minamata — These 30 Years	Director
1987	Hiroshima no pika	Director
1984	Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea	Director
1984	The Stolen Sea	Director
1982	Nuclear Scrapbook	Director
1981	The Minamata Mural	Director
1980	Fishing Moon	Director
1979	Voices of Young Japan	Writer, Director
1978	My Town, My Youth	Director
1976	Message from Minamata to the World	Director
1975	Minamata Disease: A Trilogy	Director
1975	The Shiranui Sea	Director
1973	Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life	Director
1973	Minamata Report 1 - The Central Pollution Board	Director
1971	Minamata: The Victims and Their World	Director
1969	Prehistory of the Partisans	Director
1969	Cuban Lover	Producer
1968	The World of the Siberians	Director
1965	Minamata no ko wa ikiteiru	Director
1965	Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin	Director
1964	An Engineer's Assistant	Writer, Director, Screenplay
1964	On the Road: A Document	Director

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