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

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 22, 2022

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

english, swedish, japanese

Countries

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

Production

Silver Salt Films

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt6434210