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> One of the film’s most memorable passages, also in part three, involves #SakamotoShinobu, a Minamata patient since birth who collaborates with singer-songwriters on songs about the disease and her struggles with it. She will also come to speak, near Minamata Mandala’s end, at the court hearings. Hara’s scope proves devastating in how it displays such a range of people who’ve been affected by the disease and in so many ways...
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/minamata-mandala-review-hara-kazuo/
#ShinobuSakamoto #水俣曼荼羅
#MinamataMandala
'Minamata Mandala' Review: An Epic Crusade for Justice

'Minamata Mandala' is a testament to how the body becomes politicized when it’s subjected to the ruinous practices of industry.

Slant Magazine
Show threadbsmall2Dec 3
> Filmed over 15 years, this epic three-part documentary by Kazuo Hara (The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On) chronicles the history of struggle for a community in southern Japan suffering from “Minamata disease"... Both a deeply humanizing portrait of resilience and a comprehensive history of one of the worst pollution-related tragedies in human history, Minamata Mandala gives voice to the many survivors, care providers, researchers, and supporters tirelessly fighting for visibility.
https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/minamata-mandala/
#MinamataMandala #FilmAndPlace #PlaceFilm
Minamata Mandala

Grasshopper Film
bs2Apr 6, 2022
The #NutmegsCurse by #Amitav Ghosh keeps making me think of scenes from #HayaoMiyazaki's #宮崎駿 movies: a river god purging pollution in #SpiritedAway #千と千尋 the noise and smoke from the Industrial town in #PrincessMononoke #もののけ姫, along with the little forest spirits, the big deer god. #水俣曼荼羅 #MinamataMandala's producer #HaraKazuo said the #LocalGods of a place #地神 #地公神 take part in movies. It would be interesting to see #原一男 talk with #DaviKopenwa about the #xapiri of the #Amazon.
bs2Jan 4, 2022
#MinamataMandala #水俣曼荼羅 #原一男 #KazuoHara #Documentary #movie
- https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2021/films/minamata-mandala
bs2Dec 24, 2021

> If Sennan Asbestos Disaster is THE Japanese documentary of 2010s, Minamata Mandala will likely be THE Japanese documentary of 2020s. Kazuo captured the power of life in such a pure way. 2K DCP, Shanghai International Film Festival

- https://mubi.com/films/minamata-mandala

#Minamata #Movie #水俣曼荼羅 #水俣病 #原一男 #HaraKazuo #Documentary #MinamataMandala

Minamata Mandala

For decades, Minamata disease patients struggled within the Japanese judicial system for their rights to receive compensation as victims of environmental disease. Those different aspects of these patients’ lives have been filmed by director Hara for the last 15 years.

MUBI
bs2Dec 18, 2021

- https://film.japansociety.org/bundle/minamata-mandala/

#Minamata #Movie #水俣曼荼羅 #水俣病 #原一男 #HaraKazuo #Documentary #MinamataMandala

Japan Society Film | MINAMATA Mandala

_“Minamata disease”_ is a neurological disease caused by methylmercury poisoning named for its identification in Kumamoto Prefecture, where industrial wastewater from a Chisso Corporation chemical plant contaminated fish and shellfish consumed by communities around Minamata Bay and the Shiranui Sea. Filmed over 15 years, this sprawling documentary lays out this history of pollution dating back to the 1930s and decades long legal battles against the government for diagnosis certification and reparations. However the film gives itself over to the network of survivors, care providers, and supporters keeping the fight alive, following unexpected chutes and ladders from gregarious researchers’ theories pushing back against an intransigent medical establishment, to the passionate song lyrics of a woman suffering since childhood. Here Hara and Kobayashi return to core commitments of disability rights and individuals’ demands of the state, extending Noriaki Tsuchimoto’s landmark series on the Minamata struggle, and issuing a cry against political apathy. "Hara Kazuo—considered his generation’s documentary master—displays headstrong patience and allegiance to his subjects, something that has become characteristic of his late-career period of prolific filmmaking.”—International Film Festival Rotterdam *** Streaming in the U.S. from June 4-July 2 as part of _[Cinema as Struggle: The Films of Kazuo Hara & Sachiko Kobayashi](https://film.japansociety.org/page/cinema-as-struggle-the-films-of-kazuo-hara-and-sachiko-kobayashi/)_ | [Also available in the U.S. as a part of our discounted 3-Film _**Bundle 2**_](https://film.japansociety.org/bundle/cinema-as-struggle-the-films-of-kazuo-hara-and-sachiko-kobayashi-bundle-2/) for $20

Japan Society Film
bs2Dec 18, 2021

- https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2021/films/minamata-mandala

#Minamata #Movie #水俣曼荼羅 #水俣病 #原一男 #HaraKazuo #Documentary #MinamataMandala