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

8.1 480 mins Drama   2022
Silver Salt Films  
Director(s): C.W. Winter Anders Edström

Release Date: 22 Wed, Jun 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.

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

Tayoko Shiojiri

as Tayoko

Hiroharu Shikata

as Hiroharu

Ryo Kase

as Ryo Sasaki

Kaoru Iwahana

as Junji

Jun Tsunoda

as Kagawa

Masahiro Motoki

as Neighbour

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