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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)(2022)
Status: Released
Date: 2022-06-22
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Time: 8h 0m
Overview:
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.
Languages: Japanese, Swedish, English.
Countries:
Hong Kong,
Japan,
Sweden,
United Kingdom,
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Silver Salt Films
Movie: The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
Top 7 Billed Cast
加瀬亮
Ryo Sasaki
本木雅弘
Neighbour
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