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WHERE HAS ALL THE POLLUTION GONE?

By Hirokazu KORE-EDA

Social issues - Completed 1992

Palme d'Or winner Kore-eda’s earlier work as a TV director, documentary about the society with his keen sense.

- Year of production
- 1992
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Duration
- 47 mn
- Director(s)
- Hirokazu KORE-EDA
- Synopsis
- Early 1960s in Chiba prefecture, the pollution from a steel factory caused asthma to the locals. Hashimoto Michio, a bureaucrat of Ministry of the Environment, became a hero creating a law in 1967 which was the starting point of pollution control in Japan. But with the certified patients growing in number and their compensation becoming a burden to the economic world, the government deregulated the restriction claiming the pollution is resolved and Hashimoto became considered as a traitor from the victims who felt the situation otherwise.