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Minamata Mandala documentary

Original title: Minamata Mandala
Year: 2020
Running time: 372 min.
Country: Japan
Director: Kazuo Hara
Cast: Documentary, Self: Hideo Ikoma, Toshiyuki Kawakami, Akio Mizoguchi, Shinobu Sakamoto
Music: Vukelic Hisashi Yamasaki
Cinematography: Kazuo Hara
Producer: Shisso Production
Genre: Documentary | 1940s
Synopsis: In the early 1940s, strange symptoms appear in the people of Minamata. People are having convulsions all over their bodies and tongues are eventually made mute. The government treated those whose physical functions had collapsed as fake patients and controlled the situation in a political context.

Critics' reviews

"The film understands how atrocity is perpetuated, fanning a maddening sense of injustice (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"

Clayton Dillard: Slant

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Minamata Mandala

2020

Kazuo Hara