The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
Genres
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.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
480 min
Release Date
2022-06-22
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
5
Vote Average
8.1
Tayoko Shiojiri
Tayoko
Hiroharu Shikata
Hiroharu
Ryo Kase
Ryo Sasaki
Mai Edström
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Kaoru Iwahana
Junji
Jun Tsunoda
Kagawa
Masahiro Motoki
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