The Shiranui Sea (1975)
不知火海
The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in the Yatsushiro Sea which, when eaten by the local populace, gave rise to Minamata disease. The disease was responsible for the deaths and disabling of thousands of residents, all around the Yatsushiro Sea. The marine ecosystem was also extensively damaged.
- Date of release
- 1975-01-23
- TMDB
- 7.7 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 2h 30m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Casting
- Soichi Ito — Narrator (voice)
- Noriaki Tsuchimoto — Self - Interviewer (uncredited)
Interesting facts
The Shiranui Sea is a 1975 Japanese documentary by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. It is the fourth in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident, caused by the release of contamnated industrial wastewater, in Minamata, Japan.
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