The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
Viewers interested in modern Drama cinema often explore The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) because of its cast, story direction, and audience popularity.
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.
