Noriaki Tsuchimoto (1928 - 2008)

Born:
December 11, 1928 in Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Died:
June 24, 2008(age 79)

About:
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."