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Died 4 September 2007, Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan Movies Living on the River Agano | ||
Makoto Satō (佐藤 真 Satō Makoto, September 12, 1957 - September 4, 2007) was a Japanese documentary film director. Among his best-known films were Living On the River Agano, which describes people around the Agano River where incidents of Niigata Minamata disease were discovered, and Self and Others.
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His final film, Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said (2005), was named Best Documentary at the 2006 Mainichi Film Awards.
Early life
Satō was born in Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, and raised in Tokyo.
Filmography
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Makoto Satō (director) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA