Noriaki Tsuchimoto

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

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

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

Video version of the picture book ‘Hiroshima no pika’, based on the art pieces known as The Hiroshima Panels by Iri and Maruki Toshi

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

Umitori takes place in Shimokita Peninsula on the northern edge of the mainland, which was becoming a “nuclear energy peninsula”, undergoing ...

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

After a handful of groundbreaking films detailing the tragedy and suffering of the mercury-poisoned Japanese town of Minamata, documentary master ...

Since Minamata: The Victims and Their World (1971), director Tsuchimoto Noriaki has made numerous works depicting people living in Minamata. This ...