Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Noriaki Tsuchimoto in 2005
Born(1928-12-11)11 December 1928
Died24 June 2008(2008-06-24) (aged 79)
NationalityJapanese
OccupationDocumentary film director
Known forMinamata: The Victims and Their World

Noriaki Tsuchimoto (土本典昭, Tsuchimoto Noriaki) (11 December 1928, in Gifu Prefecture, Japan – 24 June 2008) 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."[1]

  1. ^ Nornes, Abé Mark (2011). "Noriaki Tsuchimoto and the Reverse View Documentary". The Documentaries of Noriaki Tsuchimoto. Zakka Films. pp. 2–4.