Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Directing

Born: December 11, 1928

Birthplace: Gifu Prefecture, Japan

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."