Samuel Goldwyn Films has released the domestic trailer for the drama Minamata [MINAM] based on real life events. Johnny Depp [JDEPP] stars as photographer W. Eugene Smith who helped expose the corporation responsible for poisoning the people of Minamata, Japan during the 1970s. Minamata hits theaters beginning December 15th, and expands into 2022.
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 (Bill 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.