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June 09, 2021 17:11 IST
Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara discusses the making of ‘Minamata Mandala’, filmed across 15 years, the film’s politics and how it aptly reflects the time we live in
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Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara discusses the making of ‘Minamata Mandala’, filmed across 15 years, the film’s politics and how it aptly reflects the time we live in
An isolated elderly patient with the Minamata disease lying on a hospital bed with ventilator support, is the opening scene of
Minamata Mandala (2020). A sprawling six-hour-long documentary by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Kazuo Hara, it is both a humane story and a deeply political film, that exposes the Japanese government’s incompetence in handling the disease and painstakingly captures the decades-long legal and medical battle of the residents of Minamata, Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan.