Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Directing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1928-12-11

  • Day of Death

    2008-06-24 (79 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    Gifu Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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."