Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Directing
Born
December 11, 1928 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan
Died
June 24, 2008
Age
Died at age 79

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."

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