Seirinsha Movies

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly...

Interviews with Burakumin in Osaka, victims of discrimination

Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for...

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

A medical perspective of Minamata disease in three parts - 1) Progress of Research; 2) Pathology and Symptoms; 3) Clinical Field Trials

Documentary on the life of Teruo Kawamoto, a leader of Minamata disease activism

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

An update to the story of Minamata disease, going up to 1976

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

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

A film answering "eight questions about Minamata disease," produced for the October 1996 Minamata-Tokyo Exhibition

A tangerine field stretches along the seashore in Minamata. Minamata disease patients, unable to work on the sea, work hard at growing amanatsu...