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

IMDb 8.1 2022 • 480 min • Drama

Director

C.W. Winter

Country

HK

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Tayoko Shiojiri
Tayoko Shiojiri Tayoko
Hiroharu Shikata
Hiroharu Shikata Hiroharu
Ryo Kase
Ryo Kase Ryo Sasaki
Mai Edström
Mai Edström Mai
Kaoru Iwahana
Kaoru Iwahana Junji