The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

The read

It runs long at 8h 1m.

Synopsis

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

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Key crew

• C.W. WinterWriter
• C.W. WinterDirector
• Anders EdströmDirector

Cast

• Tayoko ShiojiriTayoko
• Hiroharu ShikataHiroharu
• Ryo KaseRyo Sasaki
• Mai EdströmMai
• Kaoru IwahanaJunji
• Jun TsunodaKagawa
• Masahiro MotokiNeighbour

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