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

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

480 mins | Drama | June 22, 2022

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.

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

480 mins | Drama | June 22, 2022

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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Silver Salt Films
Original title 仕事と日(塩谷の谷間で)
Directors Anders Edström, C.W. Winter
Writers C.W. Winter

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