Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Minamata / Ingenious Media and Rogue Black present ; in association with Infinitum Nihil and Windhorse Entertainment, MagnoliaMae Films UK, HanWay Films Limited, Head Gear Films, Metrol Technology, LipSync ; a Metalwork Pictures production ; directed by Andrew Levitas ; written by David K. Kessler, Stephen Deuters, Andrew Levitas, Jason Forman ; produced by Sam Sarkar, Bill Johnson, Gabrielle Tana, Kevan Van Thompson, David K. Kessler, Zach Avery, Andrew Levitas, Johnny Depp.

Publisher, Date:

Culver City, CA : Samuel Goldwyn Films, [2022]

Description:

1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

sound

1.85:1

wide screen

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

auditory captions

Summary:

About a celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith in a real life David vs Goliath story, pitting Smith against a powerful corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan in 1971. With the glory days of World War II far behind him, Smith has become a recluse. Between an impassioned Japanese translator called Aileen urging him to go and a much-needed commission from "Life" Magazine editor Ralph Graves, Smith is finally convinced to journey back to Japan to expose the devastating annihilation of a coastal community, victims of corporate greed and complicit local police and government. Armed with only his trusted Nikon camera, Smith must find the images that will bring this story to the World. MINAMATA is a moving redemptive story of how one man's powerful photograph impacted the world, yet to find it he had to open his heart.

Target Audience Note:

MPA rating: R; for language throughout.

Subjects:

Smith, W. Eugene, 1918-1978 -- Drama.

Photojournalists -- Drama.

Mercury -- Toxicology -- Drama.

Minamata-shi (Japan) -- Drama.

Genre:

Historical films.

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.