Noriaki Tsuchimoto Movies

Documentary on the life of Teruo Kawamoto, a leader of Minamata disease activism

"In my filmography, An Engineer’s Assistant (1963) is called my “first film.” This PR film on the safety of the Japanese National...

A film essay about nuclear energy in Japan, composed of newspaper clippings collected in scrapbooks

Documentary on Chua Swee­-Lin, a Malaysian exchange student who was threatened with deportation over his protest against the separation and...

As her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to expand her own life even as her husband's life...

Documentary about the great Japanese documentary maker Tsuchimoto Noriaki made a couple of years before his death.

Having spent her childhood in Dalian and Harbin in the former state of Manchukuo, Taeko Tomiyama carried within her the conviction: “As an...

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the...

The daily life of the citizens of Kabul during the civil war: the bazaar, mosques, the literacy movement awarded honors by UNESCO, women's education,...

A record of the stories of patients suffering from Minamata disease, 30 years after its discovery

An update to the story of Minamata disease, going up to 1976

Devotion investigates the extremely complex and heirarchical relationships among a committed group of Japanese filmmakers who dedicated up to 30...