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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2022)
Directed by C.W. Winter, Anders Edström
Overview
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.
Rated NR | Length 480 minutes
Actors
Tayoko Shiojiri | Hiroharu Shikata | Ryo Kase | Mai Edström | Kaoru Iwahana | Jun Tsunoda | Masahiro Motoki