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
- Directing
- Born
- 1928-12-11 · Gifu Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- 2008-06-24
Known for
- Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971) — Director
- She and He (1963) — Editor
- Bad Boys (1961) — Assistant Director
- The Shiranui Sea (1975) — Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
- Cuban Lover (1969) — Producer
- On the Road: A Document (1964) — Director
- Prehistory of the Partisans (1969) — Director
- An Engineer's Assistant (1964) — Director
- Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions (2002) — himself
- Nuclear Scrapbook (1982) — Director
- Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin (1965) — Director
- Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985 (2003) — Director
- Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988 (2003) — Writer
- Tsuchimoto Noriaki (2014) — Self
- Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto (2007)
- Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life (1973) — Director