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

8.1 / 10

(5 votes)

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.

Country:

Hong Kong,

Japan,

Sweden,

United Kingdom,

United States of America

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

480 minutes

Year:

2022

Director:

C.W. Winter

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Company:

Silver Salt Films

Cast:
Tayoko Shiojiri

Tayoko

Hiroharu Shikata

Hiroharu

Ryo Kase

Ryo Sasaki

Mai Edström

Mai

Kaoru Iwahana

Junji

Crew:
C.W. Winter

Editor

Rob Walker

Sound Designer

Anders Edström

Producer

Wang Yue

Producer

C.W. Winter

Sound