水俣曼荼罗

《水俣曼荼罗》剧情简介：这部纪录片围绕着日本著名的水俣病环境污染事件（被称为世界八大公害事件之一）展开。影片分为三个部分，详尽地描绘了污染受害者所面临的困境。摄影团队走入这些家庭，对他们的生活状况、学者研究，以及法律诉讼等各个方面进行了调查与展示，表达了对环境保护刻不容缓的态度。本片历时15年拍摄，受到已故导演土本典昭的纪录片《水俣病患者及其世界》的启发。

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 individuals whose physical functions had collapsed as fake patients and controlled the situation in a political context. MINAMATA Mandala opens by rebelling against the political solution. There is an old man in his 90s who has battled in court for more than 20 years, a medical school professor striving to identify the cause of the disease, and a fisherman providing disease samples for medical examinations. Hara Kazuo does not portray them as a tenacious fighter against political power, a dedicated medical scientist, and a suffering victim. The grand running time of 372 minutes embraces their long history of suffering in solidarity as well as embodies the individual lives with distinct personalities.