An extrodinary and remarkable documentary, with an exceptional good production and directorial - detailed and emotional.
This qoute from the movie, in my opinion, says it all: "Rise! If you say that man is still the lord of all creation. This cruel and venomous world must be overturned. What is civilisation! Having killed countless living things: Butterflies. Dragon flies. Fire flies, clams and mud-snails, wild geese and swallows. Loaches and killifish, Water beetles and lizards. The patients of Minamata disease, do you know of them? Have you heard of the children born with Minamata disease. Heads that loll, eyes than can't see, ears that can't hear, mouths that can't speak or taste, hands that can't grasp, legs that won't walk. You make people bear such babies. You make the sea unfit for bacteria and you talk of rapid economic growth. You boats of expo '70. What is poverty to us. Eh? Try to remember. Tell those who don't know how we survived on sweet potatoe leaves. Remember! If you are human, rise and fight! Fight the war against pollution! Fight the Minamata war! A war waged by we who hate war! The last war of the human race!"
This qoute from the movie, in my opinion, says it all: "Rise! If you say that man is still the lord of all creation. This cruel and venomous world must be overturned. What is civilisation! Having killed countless living things: Butterflies. Dragon flies. Fire flies, clams and mud-snails, wild geese and swallows. Loaches and killifish, Water beetles and lizards. The patients of Minamata disease, do you know of them? Have you heard of the children born with Minamata disease. Heads that loll, eyes than can't see, ears that can't hear, mouths that can't speak or taste, hands that can't grasp, legs that won't walk. You make people bear such babies. You make the sea unfit for bacteria and you talk of rapid economic growth. You boats of expo '70. What is poverty to us. Eh? Try to remember. Tell those who don't know how we survived on sweet potatoe leaves. Remember! If you are human, rise and fight! Fight the war against pollution! Fight the Minamata war! A war waged by we who hate war! The last war of the human race!"
