

Minamata Mandala
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. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in fishes of the local water, which when consumed by the local populace resulted in mercury poisoning. In 1977, Minamata disease certification criteria was set by a strange method that tried not to recognize the rights of environmental disease patients. However, an Osaka court won the case for some patients because of a newly developed theory by medical doctors’ recent experiments and proofs. For decades, these 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, inspired by the late director Tsuchimoto’s documentary MINAMATA: THE VICTIMS AND THEIR WORLD (1971).
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- Released
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- Language
- Japanese
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Director
Produced in
Japan
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Release dates
ChinaCN
- PremiereShanghai International Film Festival25 Jul 2020
JapanJP
- Theatrical27 Nov 2021
South KoreaKR
- PremiereBusan International Film Festival22 Oct 2020
Frequently asked questions
Minamata Mandala was released on 27 November 2021.
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