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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
8.1 / 10• 2022• 8h 1m•NR• Japanese
Drama
Storyline
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 & Crew
TS
Tayoko Shiojiri
Tayoko
LeadHS
Hiroharu Shikata
Hiroharu
Ryo Kase
Ryo Sasaki
ME
Mai Edström
Mai
KI
Kaoru Iwahana
Junji
JT
Jun Tsunoda
Kagawa
Masahiro Motoki
Neighbour
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. C.W. Winter's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
