The Minamata Mural

(1981)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1981

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 土本典昭

Cast: 伊藤惣一, 丸木俊, 丸木位里

Plot

After a handful of groundbreaking films detailing the tragedy and suffering of the mercury-poisoned Japanese town of Minamata, documentary master Noriaki Tsuchimoto revisits the subject of Minamata through the eyes of the celebrated husband-and-wife painting duo Iri and Toshi Maruki. Tsuchimoto follows the Marukis from their quaint homestead studio, where they paint slews of ghastly, psychotropic mural panels depicting the effects of Minamata disease, to the streets of Minamata, where they meet and paint portraits of several victims of mercury poisoning.