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

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.

• Release date
• June 22, 2022
• Runtime
• 481 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• C.W. Winter

Cast

T

Tayoko Shiojiri Tayoko

H

Hiroharu Shikata Hiroharu Ryo Kase Ryo Sasaki

M

Mai Edström Mai

K

Kaoru Iwahana Junji

J

Jun Tsunoda Kagawa Masahiro Motoki Neighbour