Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft

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Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft (2019)

Directed by Clay Jeter

Documentary · 54m

There is a popular theory that it takes at least 10,000 hours of focused practice for a human to become expert in any field. In Japan, there are craftspeople who go far beyond this to reach a special kind of mastery. These people are called Takumi and they devote 60,000 hours to their craft. That's 8 hours a day, 240 days a year, for over 30 years. It's an almost superhuman level of dedication to a life of repetition and no shortcuts. This film asks the question: Will human craft disappear as artificial intelligence reaches beyond our limits?

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Cast

N
Nora Atkinson Herself
J
Jon Bruner Himself
M
Martin Ford Himself
S
Shigeo Kiuchi Himself
N
Nahoko Kojima Herself
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Neil MacGregor Narrator
H
Hisato Nakahigashi Himself
K
Katsuaki Suganuma Himself

Crew

Director
Clay Jeter
Writer
Dave Bedwood
Editor
J. Santos
Producer
Rupert Maconick

Details

Release date
2019-03-19
Runtime
54m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English, Japanese
Countries
Japan, United Kingdom
Production
Saville Productions