Minamata: The Victims and Their World

Minamata: The Victims and Their World
Directed byNoriaki Tsuchimoto
Produced byRyūtarō Takagi
CinematographyKōshirō Ōtsu
Edited byNoriaki Tsuchimoto
Takako Sekizawa
Production
company
Higashi Productions
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Running time
167 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Minamata: The Victims and Their World (水俣 患者さんとその世界, Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai) is a Japanese documentary made in 1971 by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. It is the first in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan. Subsequent films in the series include The Shiranui Sea.