[KineJapan] Minamata review

[John Junkerman]

>From what I've heard, Tsuchimoto doesn't appear, but they used some footage
from his films.

John

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 12:23 AM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Apparently Siglo did help out by lending films, etc. I was wondering if
> Tsuchimoto appears as well.
>
> Here’s one review that is rather generous.
>
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/feb/21/minamata-review-heartfelt-look-at-disaster-that-struck-japanese-town
>
> Aaron
>
> 2020/02/22 午前7:14、Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu
> >のメール:
>
>
> I wonder if Tsuchimoto makes an appearance?
>
> M
>
>
> https://variety.com/2020/film/reviews/minamata-review-johnny-depp-1203509223/
>
>
> “A sledgehammer treatment of many of the same issues so elegantly
> addressed in Todd Haynes’ recent “Dark Waters” (a domestic
> industrial-negligence saga all but overlooked in theaters last fall),
> “Minamata” features several jazzed-up white-knuckle sequences in which
> Gene, Aileen and other activists — including a charismatic organizer played
> by the great Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada — trespass in hospital wards
> and research labs where the Chisso Corp. patients are being treated for
> methylmercury contamination.
>
>
> Chisso makes for a powerful adversary that has both the police and local
> goons in its pocket, a massive chemical company that dumps its toxic
> byproducts directly into the water supply. Levitas sanitizes the waste
> water Gene observes, presumably to make the thick sludge he actually
> documented in 1971 seem more credible. But when it comes to violent
> confrontations — including an attack that leaves Gene badly bruised and
> bandaged for the taking of his impactful “Tomoko in Her Bath” photograph —
> Levitas shows no such restraint, leaning on master composer Ryuichi
> Sakamoto (in top form) to amplify the fundamental integrity of Smith’s
> anti-corporate exposé“
>
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