Minamata
A powerful reminder that there are indeed times when a picture is worth a thousand words.
-- Stephen Romei, The Australian
Minamata
Three-time Academy Award® nominee Johnny Depp plays 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 (Minami) urging him to go and a much needed commission from "Life" Magazine editor Ralph Graves (Nighy), 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 in order to find it he had to open his heart.
Genre
Drama
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Runtime
115
Language
English
Director
Andrew Levitas
Writer(s)
David Kessler,
Stephen Deuters,
Andrew Levitas
Cast
Johnny Depp,
Hiroyuki Sanada,
Jun Kunimura,
Minami,
Ryo Kase,
Tadanobu Asano,
Akiko Iwase,
Bill Nighy
Played at
Town Center 5 12.15.21 - 12.21.21
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