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Noriaki Tsuchimoto
AKA: 土本典昭Birthday: 1928-12-11
Died: 2008-06-24
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."