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

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

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Director: C.W. Winter, Anders Edström

Writer: C.W. Winter

Producer: Anders Edström, Wang Yue, C.W. Winter

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.

480 min Rating: 8.1/10 Released
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Ryo Kase
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Ryo Sasaki

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Director: C.W. Winter, Anders Edström

Writer: C.W. Winter

Producer: Anders Edström, Wang Yue, C.W. Winter

Production Companies: Silver Salt Films

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

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