An isolated elderly patient with the Minamata disease lying on a hospital bed with ventilator support, is the opening scene of Minamata Mandala (2020). A sprawling six-hour-long documentary by ...

Many tragedies never really end, they just fade from view. Such has been the case with Minamata disease, a neurological disorder caused by mercury poisoning that afflicted thousands of people in ...

“Even though we might speak about privacy in terms of an individual’s values or sensibilities, if I look more closely at the way each individual experiences the world — their feelings — I’m led to ...

Rows of black banners, emblazoned with a Chinese character denoting “grudge” in white, feature in Kazuo Hara’s “Minamata Mandala,” a documentary feature film that will be released in Japan this year.

MINAMATA, Kumamoto Prefecture--As Japan marked the 70th anniversary of the official confirmation of Minamata disease on May 1, the gulf between the government and victims remains unbridged with no ...

After years of dumping industrial wastes from the factory to the ocean, Chisso Chemical Corporation contaminated the area of a small Japanese fishing village with excessive amounts of methylmercury.

MINAMATA WAS a sleepy little town on Japan’s western island of Kyushu. But in the early 1950s eerie things began happening there. Birds flew in circles and plopped into the sea. Cats “danced”, as ...

MINAMATA Mandala, the latest documentary by veteran filmmaker Kazuo Hara, captures the resilience of people left behind by their government. Kazuo Hara's epic Reiwa Uprising, screening at Doc ...