"Minamata"
Minamata
Retour sur une période de la vie du solitaire photographe de guerre, W. Eugene Smith. Dans les années 70, armé de son appareil Minolta, il part au Japon à Minamata. Il va photographier la population victime de la "maladie de Minamata". Il va suivre les effets de la pollution industrielle, par la firme Chisso, sur les habitants. Victime de repr�..
Minamata
"Minamata is the name of a fishing village in Japan," said the writer-director ("Peep Show," "Eva Peron," "Rusty Sat on a Hill One Dawn and Watched the Moon Go Down"), who wrote the piece with Mira-Lani Oglesby. "Chisso, a company that makes parts for plastic, dumped mercury waste into the water supply and the fishermen got sick. A high percentage ..
Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai
Premier film a rendre compte du drame de Minamata. Depuis longtemps, une grosse usine de produits chimiques de la societe Chisso est installee dans cette ville situee sur l'ile de Kyushu, au sud du Japon. Les premiers cas de la maladie de Minamata sont enregistres en 1956 et de nombreux enfants naissent malformes.
Minamata Mandala
After years of dumping industrial wastes from the factory to the ocean, Chisso Chemical Corporation contaminated the area of a small Japanese fishing village with excessive amounts of methylmercury. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in fishes of the local water, which when consumed by the local populace resulted in mercury poisoning. In 197..
Minamata no ko wa ikiteiru
Follows the treatment of Minamata disease patients
Minamata no amanatsu
A tangerine field stretches along the seashore in Minamata. Minamata disease patients, unable to work on the sea, work hard at growing amanatsu oranges.
Minamata Disease: A Trilogy
A medical perspective of Minamata disease in three parts - 1) Progress of Research; 2) Pathology and Symptoms; 3) Clinical Field Trials
Minamata: The Person Who Dug the Well
Documentary on the life of Teruo Kawamoto, a leader of Minamata disease activism
The Minamata Mural
After a handful of groundbreaking films detailing the tragedy and suffering of the mercury-poisoned Japanese town of Minamata, documentary master Noriaki Tsuchimoto revisits the subject of Minamata through the eyes of the celebrated husband-and-wife painting duo Iri and Toshi Maruki. Tsuchimoto follows the Marukis from their quaint homestead studio..
Minamata Revolt: A People's Quest for Life
Second film in Tsuchimoto's series on Minamata disease - the victims of Minamata disease negotiate directly with Chisso Corporation (responsible for dumping toxic water into Minamata Bay) for life-long medical care and compensation.
Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls
In 1994, Minamata disease victims held an exhibition in Tokyo where portraits of the all 1080 people who had died of the disease by that time were displayed.
Minamata — These 30 Years
A record of the stories of patients suffering from Minamata disease, 30 years after its discovery
Message from Minamata to the World
An update to the story of Minamata disease, going up to 1976
Minamata Disease Video Q&A
A film answering "eight questions about Minamata disease," produced for the October 1996 Minamata-Tokyo Exhibition
The Shiranui Sea
The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in the Yatsushiro Sea which, when eaten by the local populace, gave rise to Minamata disease. The disease was responsible for the deaths and disabling of..
The Innocent Sea
This documentary follows the lives of Minamata disease victims who still suffer a quarter of a century later.
