The sea comes back to life. The documentary cinema of Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Thanks to his political activism, Noriaki Tsuchimoto is a major figure in Japanese documentaries. His masterpiece is The Shiranui Sea, a lyrical portrayal of victims of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata – the most shocking case of environmental contamination in Japan - dealing with the relation between nature and human capacity to overcome and recover from governmental and industrial abuse.