japanese
Yamagata Manabikan
  • Showa Housekeeping
  • Save Yamagata Indigenous Crops
    • Revisiting Mr. Tsuchimoto
  • Tsuchimoto Noriaki Remembers, July 1996
  • Minamata 1998: What Changed, What Didn’t
    • Fellow Countrymen in a Foreign Land
  • Our School (Uri hakkyo)

    • Revisiting Mr. Tsuchimoto

    Tsuchimoto Noriaki Remembers, July 1996

    (1996 nen 7 gatsu 14 ka kirokueigasakka Tsuchimoto Noriaki)
    JAPAN / 2011 / Japanese / Color / Video / 99 min

    Director, Producer: Yamagami Tetsujiro
    Editor: Oshige Yuji
    Photography: Ichinose Masafumi, Shimizu Yoshio, Ishida Yuko
    Sound Design: Ogawa Takeshi

    Yamagami Tetsujiro, Tsuchimoto Noriaki’s producer since the 1980s, interviews the documentary filmmaker alongside his friend and cameraman Otsu Koshiro. Tsuchimoto had just returned from shooting in Okhotsk, after suffering from alcoholism after Afghan Spring and a long lapse in his career. A frank testimony from a documentary filmmaker who embodied a sense of loss within, struggled with illness, and inevitably faced the changes in the leftist movement over the years.


    Minamata 1998: What Changed, What Didn’t

    (1998 nen Minamata kawariyukumono, kawaranaimono)
    - JAPAN / 2011 / Japanese / Color / Video / 17 min

    Director, Photography: Tsuchimoto Noriaki
    Editing, Sound: Tsuchimoto Motoko
    Production Company: Ciné Associé

    Footage from 13 years ago filmed by Tsuchimoto Noriaki (who passed away in 2008) and edited by his wife, Motoko. Sludge containing mercury is still buried in the reclaimed landfill area in Minamata today. With the recent nuclear power plant accident, the fate of nuclear waste overlaps with Minamata. It is an irreversible issue for all living beings on this planet.