Minamata - The Victims and Their World

  • (Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai) 
水俣ー患者さんとその世界


  • Director: Noriaki TSUCHIMOTO


  • Japan 1971, 16mm, 120 min, Japanese with English subtitles

Noriaki TSUCHIMOTO’s documentary follows the victims of Minamata disease in a four-year trial against the company Chisso which was pumping highly toxical mercury into the sea over decades. Even today the film has not lost its shocking power.



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