Birthday: December 11th, 1928 Date of Death: June 24th, 2008 Place of Birth: 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."