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.
Top Billed Cast
Tayoko Shiojiri
Tayoko
Hiroharu Shikata
Hiroharu
Ryo Kase
Ryo Sasaki
Mai Edström
Mai
Kaoru Iwahana
Junji
Featured Crew
C.W. Winter
Editor
Rob Walker
Sound Designer
Anders Edström
Producer
Wang Yue
Producer
C.W. Winter
Sound
C.W. Winter
Executive Producer
C.W. Winter
Producer
Anders Edström
Cinematography
Helen Sara Jones
Co-Producer
Naomi Wright
Co-Producer
C.W. Winter
Director
Anders Edström
Director
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