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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/
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'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.

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> "I did not choose to get Minamata disease," said Shinobu Sakamoto, 69, who has a congenital form of the illness. "I want the world to understand. The suffering has not ended."
> Depp responded by saying, "I would love to help in any way."
> The two conversed for about 15 minutes via an interpreter, with Depp expressing the desire to visit Minamata in Kumamoto Prefecture after Sakamoto urged him to do so.
https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/johnny-depp-meets-with-minamata-victim-after-2020-film-on-pollution-case
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Johnny Depp meets with Minamata victim after 2020 film on pollution case

Hollywood actor Johnny Depp on Tuesday met with an emblematic victim of Minamata mercury-poisoning disease while visiting Tokyo after starring in a 2020 film about the pollution case that devastated a town in southwestern Japan. "I did not choose to get Minamata disease," said Shinobu Sakamoto, 69, who has a…

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