The Shiranui Sea (1975)

Name: The Shiranui Sea
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1975-01-23

2h 30m

Running Time

Plot.

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.

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Cast & Crew.

Soichi Ito

Narrator (voice)

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

Self - Interviewer (uncredited) / Editor / Director

Ryutaro Takagi

Producer

Keiko Ichihara

Editor

Masafumi Ichinose

Director of Photography

Kouichi Asanuma

Sound

Teizō Matsumura

Music

Takayuki Oguri

Music

Toru Okagaki

Director of Photography

Koshiro Otsu

Director of Photography

Details.

Release Date
January 23, 1975

Original Name
不知火海

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 30m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-03-06

This Movie Is About.

fishing

disease

east asian lead

Wiki.

The Shiranui Sea (不知火海, Shiranuikai) is a Japanese documentary made in 1975 by Noriaki Tsuchimoto. It is the fourth in a series of independent documentaries that Tsuchimoto made of the mercury poisoning incident in Minamata, Japan.