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

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

Genres

Drama

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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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Runtime

480 mins

Rating

8.1/10

Release Date

22 June 2022

Country

Hong Kong

Cast

Tayoko Shiojiri

Tayoko Shiojiri

Tayoko

Hiroharu Shikata

Hiroharu Shikata

Hiroharu

Ryo Kase

Ryo Kase

Ryo Sasaki

Mai Edström

Mai Edström

Mai

Kaoru Iwahana

Kaoru Iwahana

Junji

Jun Tsunoda

Jun Tsunoda

Kagawa

Masahiro Motoki

Masahiro Motoki

Neighbour

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