The Shiranui Sea
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- Noriaki Tsuchimoto
- Keiko Ichihara
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| Directed by | Noriaki Tsuchimoto |
| Produced by | Ryūtarō Takagi |
| Cinematography | Kōshirō Ōtsu |
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Production company | Seirinsha Productions |
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Running time | 153 min |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
The Shiranui Sea (不知火海, Shiranuikai) 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 in Minamata, Japan.
Four years after Minamata: The Victims and Their World, Tsuchimoto's camera focuses on the everyday lives of the victims of mercury poisoning. Fisherman still knowingly catch and eat the mercury-laden fish caught in the beautiful Shiranui Sea because that is what they have always done and that is how they relate to nature. Some patients who received significant compensation from Chisso, the polluter, may now live in good houses, but without doing work their lives seem somehow empty. The real victims remain the children, who are now getting older and in some cases increasingly conscious of the fact they are different from other children.