Igaku to shite no Minamatabyō : sanbusaku. [Dainibu], Byōri, Byōzō-hen / seisaku Seirinsha, Takagi Ryūtarō ; kōsei sekinin Takagi Ryūtarō ; Tsuchimoto Noriaki.
医学としての水俣病 : 三部作. [第二部], 病理・病像篇 製作青林舎, 高木隆太郎 ; 構成責任高木隆太郎, 土本典昭.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Takagi, Ryūtarō, film producer.

Tsuchimoto, Noriaki, 1928-2008, film director.

Takeuchi, Tadao, 1915-2007, scientific advisor.

Shiraki, Hirotsugu, 1917-2004, scientific advisor.

高木隆太郎, film producer.

土本典昭, 1928-2008, film director.

武内忠男, 1915-2007, scientific advisor.

白木博次, 1917-2004, scientific advisor.

Series:

IF (Independent Films) DVD series.

Kōgai no genten, Minamata kara manabu.

IF (Independent Films) DVD series ; 2

Kōgai no genten, Minamata kara manabu ; 6

IF (Independent Films) DVDシリーズ ; 2

公害の原点・水俣から学ぶ ; 6

IF (Independent Films) DVDシリーズ.

公害の原点・水俣から学ぶ.

Language:

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Environmentally induced diseases.

Mercury--Toxicology.

Japan--Minamata-shi.

Mercury--Toxicology--Japan--Minamata-shi.

Environmentally induced diseases--Japan--Minamata-shi.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 folded leaf : illustration ; 19 cm).

4 3/4 in.

Other Title:

English title on disc: Minamata disease : a trilogy. Part 2, Pathology and symptoms

Place of Publication:

[Tokyo] : Shiguro, 2006.

[Tokyo] : シグロ, 2006.

Language Note:

In Japanese.

System Details:

DVD, NTSC, all region; full frame (1.33:1 aspect ratio) presentation; Dolby Digital.

digital optical Dolby Digital

full screen (1.33:1)

NTSC

video file DVD video region 2

Summary:

Part two of a trilogy of films on Minimata disease features the pathological findings on Minamata disease by medical experts. They discusse how methyl mercury poisoning affects the brain and cranial nerves, causing a variety of functional disorders. At the time the film was made (1974), the government had established a sytem of officially certifying Minamata disease to provide victims with medical treatment and compensation. However, the recognition process is long and involved, and some applications are left pending for years, allowing patients to go untreated. This is a particularly serious problem for mentally disabled children because medical science had not yet proven a causal relation between methyl mercury poisoning and mental disorders. On the other hand, the animal experiments conducted by Shiraki Hirotsugu, a neuropathologist at Tokyo University, showed that methyl mercury accumulates in fetuses' bodies. The film ends with the pathologist Takeuchi Tadao at Kumamoto University warning that the fish in the Sea of Shiranui are still contaminated with methyl mercury. The fishermen who live in the area have continued to eat the fish putting them at increasing risk of contracting late-onset Minamata disease.

Credits:

Enshutsu, Tsuchimoto Noriaki ; satsuei, Ōtsu Kōhirō.

演出, 土本典昭 ; 撮影, 大津幸四郎.

Notes:

"Minamatabyō kōshiki hakken 50-nen kinen hatubai gentei hozonban."

"水俣病公式発見50年記念発売限定保存版."

DVD release of a documentary film originally produced in 1974.

Includes the rights of rental and public screening for educational purpose.

NCC-funded title; to be lent locally and nationally according to normal ILL procedures.

OCLC:

404069905

Publisher Number:

SG031HD