Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Known for
Directing
Born
December 11, 1928
Birthplace
Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Died
June 24, 2008 (aged 79)
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."
Best known work
Minamata: The Victims and Their World
1971
She and He
1963
Bad Boys
1961
The Shiranui Sea
1975
Cuban Lover
1969
On the Road: A Document
1964
Prehistory of the Partisans
1969
An Engineer's Assistant
1964
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions
2002
Nuclear Scrapbook
1982Filmography
2014
Tsuchimoto Noriakias Self
2007
2004
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected SoulsEditor, Director
2003
2003
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988Writer, Director
2002
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productionsas himself
1999
1989
Afghan SpringDirector
1987
Minamata — These 30 YearsDirector
1987
Hiroshima no pikaDirector
1984
1984
The Stolen SeaDirector
1982
Nuclear ScrapbookDirector
1981
The Minamata MuralEditor, Director
1980
Fishing MoonDirector
1979
Voices of Young JapanWriter, Director
1978
My Town, My YouthDirector
1976
1975
Minamata Disease: A TrilogyDirector, Editor
1975
The Shiranui Seaas Self - Interviewer (uncredited), Editor, Director
1973
1973
1971
1969
Prehistory of the PartisansDirector
1969
Cuban LoverProducer