# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/noriaki-tsuchimoto
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:26:22.320Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/noriaki-tsuchimoto"
name: "Noriaki Tsuchimoto"
slug: "noriaki-tsuchimoto"
description: "Noriaki Tsuchimoto  was a Japanese documentary film director known for his films on Minamata disease and examinations of the effects of modernization on Asia. Tsuchimoto and Shinsuke Ogawa have been called the \"two figures [that] tower over the landscape of Japanese documentary.\""
tagline: "Japanese documentary filmmaker (1928–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TsuchimotoNoriaki.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1928-12-11"
deathDate: "2008-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.05
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.824372
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875225/"
    handle:    "nm0875225"
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Tsuchimoto"
    title: "Noriaki Tsuchimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "نورياكى تسوكيموتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Tsuchimoto"
    title: "Noriaki Tsuchimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Tsuchimoto"
    title: "Noriaki Tsuchimoto"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Tsuchimoto"
    title: "Noriaki Tsuchimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noriaki_Tsuchimoto"
    title: "Noriaki Tsuchimoto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9C%9F%E6%9C%AC%E5%85%B8%E6%98%AD"
    title: "土本典昭"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555524"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1081282"
    title: "Noriaki Tsuchimoto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump