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.

Kris and her partially disabled uncle run a derelict farm together. Their quirky yet loving relation...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

In the first year of freedom after WW2, a poor family from rocky Herzegovina moves to fertile provin...

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the...

Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-c...

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capita...

In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in fin...

In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through ...

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail ...

The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Lati...

Jeanne dreams of leaving her life as a farmer behind to become an actress, but her path is troubled ...

Medea falls in love with a charming farmer and leaves her life behind in the city. But Medea struggl...

A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the ...

Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scrat...

A hard-working farmer, despairing by the harsh reality of his daily struggle, is determined to have ...

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, i...

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle w...