Minamata: The Victims and Their World
| Minamata: The Victims and Their World | |
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| Directed by | Noriaki Tsuchimoto |
| Produced by | Ryūtarō Takagi |
| Cinematography | Kōshirō Ōtsu |
| Edited by | Noriaki Tsuchimoto Takako Sekizawa |
Production company | Higashi Productions |
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Running time | 167 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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).