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

2022-06-22480m14+

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:Tayoko Shiojiri, Hiroharu Shikata, Ryo Kase, Mai Edström, Kaoru Iwahana, Jun Tsunoda,

Genre:Drama,

country:Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America,

Production:Silver Salt Films,

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