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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

Mar 19, 2019
0h 54m
★ 9.0

Overview

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?

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Saville Productions

Cast

Nora Atkinson

Herself

Nora Atkinson

Jon Bruner

Himself

Jon Bruner

Martin Ford

Himself

Martin Ford

Shigeo Kiuchi

Himself

Shigeo Kiuchi

Nahoko Kojima

Herself

Nahoko Kojima

Neil MacGregor

Narrator

Neil MacGregor

Hisato Nakahigashi

Himself

Hisato Nakahigashi

Katsuaki Suganuma

Himself

Katsuaki Suganuma

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