Directing

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Born 1928-12-11

Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Department: Directing

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."

Known For

Prominent works featuring Noriaki Tsuchimoto

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Minamata: The Victims and Their World

1971

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She and He

1963

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Bad Boys

1961

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Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988

2003

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On the Road: A Document

1964

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Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

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Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

2002

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Cuban Lover

1969

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Prehistory of the Partisans

1969

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The Shiranui Sea

1975

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An Engineer's Assistant

1964

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (41 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Tsuchimoto Noriaki	Self	Movie	2014
Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto	Self / Appearance	Movie	2007
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls	Editor	Movie	2004
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls	Director	Movie	2004
Another Afghanistan: Kabul Diary 1985	Director	Movie	2003
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988	Director	Movie	2003
Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988	Writer	Movie	2003
Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions	himself	Movie	2002
Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well	Director	Movie	1999
Afghan Spring	Director	Movie	1989
Minamata — These 30 Years	Director	Movie	1987
Hiroshima no pika	Director	Movie	1987
Bursting Balsam Flower: My Chikuho, My Korea	Director	Movie	1984
The Stolen Sea	Director	Movie	1984
Nuclear Scrapbook	Director	Movie	1982
The Minamata Mural	Editor	Movie	1981
The Minamata Mural	Director	Movie	1981
Fishing Moon	Director	Movie	1980
Voices of Young Japan	Director	Movie	1979
Voices of Young Japan	Writer	Movie	1979
My Town, My Youth	Director	Movie	1978
Message from Minamata to the World	Director	Movie	1976
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy	Director	Movie	1975
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy	Editor	Movie	1975
The Shiranui Sea	Self - Interviewer (uncredited)	Movie	1975
The Shiranui Sea	Editor	Movie	1975
The Shiranui Sea	Director	Movie	1975
Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life	Director	Movie	1973
Minamata Report 1 - The Central Pollution Board	Director	Movie	1973
Minamata: The Victims and Their World	Director	Movie	1971
Prehistory of the Partisans	Director	Movie	1969
Cuban Lover	Producer	Movie	1969
The World of the Siberians	Director	Movie	1968
Minamata no ko wa ikiteiru	Director	Movie	1965
Exchange Student Chua Swee Lin	Director	Movie	1965
An Engineer's Assistant	Director	Movie	1964
An Engineer's Assistant	Writer	Movie	1964
An Engineer's Assistant	Screenplay	Movie	1964
On the Road: A Document	Director	Movie	1964
She and He	Editor	Movie	1963
Bad Boys	Assistant Director	Movie	1961