
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
2022•480 min•
★8.1
Drama
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

Tayoko Shiojiri
Tayoko

Hiroharu Shikata
Hiroharu

Ryo Kase
Ryo Sasaki

Mai Edström
Mai

Kaoru Iwahana
Junji

Jun Tsunoda
Kagawa

Masahiro Motoki
Neighbour

DirectorC.W. Winter
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