Minamata: The Victims and Their World

Minamata: The Victims and Their World
Directed byNoriaki Tsuchimoto
Produced byRyūtarō Takagi
CinematographyKōshirō Ōtsu
Edited byNoriaki Tsuchimoto
Takako Sekizawa
Production
company
Higashi Productions
Release date
  • 1971 (1971)
Running time
167 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Minamata: The Victims and Their World (水俣 患者さんとその世界; Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai), also known as Minamata, is a 1971 Japanese black and white documentary film by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. It is the first in a series of 17 independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made about the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan. Subsequent films in the series include Minamata Disease: A Trilogy (1975) and The Shiranui Sea (1975).