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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2022)
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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.
Director: C.W. Winter, Anders Edström Starring: Tayoko Shiojiri, Hiroharu Shikata, Ryo Kase, Mai Edström
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) Cast
- 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