The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
2022•NR•8h 1m•8.1•Released
Drama
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.
Director
C.W. Winter
Writer
C.W. Winter
Languages
English, Japanese, Swedish
Studio
Silver Salt Films
Cast
Tayoko Shiojiri
Tayoko
Hiroharu Shikata
Hiroharu
Ryo Kase
Ryo Sasaki
Mai Edström
Mai
Kaoru Iwahana
Junji
Jun Tsunoda
Kagawa
Masahiro Motoki
Neighbour
Production
Company
Silver Salt Films
Producer
C.W. Winter
Producer
Wang Yue
Producer
Anders Edström
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