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

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2022)

仕事と日（塩谷の谷間で)

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.

Date of release
2022-06-22
TMDB
8.1 / 10 (5)
Runtime
8h 1m
Genres
Drama
Director
C.W. Winter, Anders Edström

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Golden Bear

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is a 2020 fiction film directed by C.W. Winter and Anders Edström. It describes life in a farming village, population 47, in the Shiotani basin in the Japanese prefecture of Kyoto. It is the second feature-length collaboration between C.W. Winter and Anders Edström after their 2009 film, The Anchorage.

Production

The film was inspired by a series of conversations between Winter, Edström, and Tayoko, who is Edström's real life mother-in-law. It was shot for a total of 27 weeks across a 14-month period. At 480 minutes long, it is one of the longest films ever made.

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