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

• Movies
• 2022-06-22
• JA
• Released
• 8h 0m
• GB
• Drama

• 8.1
• 5
• Trailer

Production

Silver Salt Films

Storyline

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.