Drama

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

Released

2022-06-22

Runtime

481 min

Performance score

Not rated

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.