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

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

Released on
Drama
Runtime
480 mins
(3 votes)

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.

Cast

  • Tayoko Shiojiri
  • Hiroharu Shikata
  • Ryo Kase
  • Mai Edström
  • Kaoru Iwahana
  • Jun Tsunoda
  • Masahiro Motoki

Director

  • C.W. Winter
  • Anders Edström

Producers

  • Anders Edström
  • C.W. Winter
  • Wang Yue

Screenwriter

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