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.

Cast

Tayoko Shiojiri

Tayoko

Hiroharu Shikata

Hiroharu

Ryo Kase

Ryo Sasaki

Mai Edström

Mai

Kaoru Iwahana

Junji

Jun Tsunoda

Kagawa

Masahiro Motoki

Neighbour

Crew

Anders Edström

Cinematography

Anders Edström

Producer

C.W. Winter

Editor

C.W. Winter

Sound

C.W. Winter

Producer

C.W. Winter

Executive Producer

Rob Walker

Sound Designer

Wang Yue

Producer

Naomi Wright

Co-Producer

Helen Sara Jones

Co-Producer

Clips & Videos

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