25 Jul 1961
Whistle Down the Wind
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
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.
Top Billed Cast
Tayoko Shiojiri Tayoko
Hiroharu Shikata Hiroharu
加瀬亮 Ryo Sasaki
Mai Edström Mai
Kaoru Iwahana Junji
Jun Tsunoda Kagawa
本木雅弘 Neighbour
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