The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
22/06/2022
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.
Drama
Movie Information
Tayoko Shiojiri
as Tayoko
Hiroharu Shikata
as Hiroharu
Ryo Kase
as Ryo Sasaki
Mai Edström
as Mai
Kaoru Iwahana
as Junji
Jun Tsunoda
as Kagawa
Masahiro Motoki
as Neighbour
