WHERE HAS ALL THE POLLUTION GONE?

By Hirokazu KORE-EDA

GAGA CORPORATION - as SALES

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.