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

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

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 Countries

JapanUnited Kingdom

Production Companies

Saville Productions

Spoken Languages

English日本語

Release Date

2019-03-19

Budget

N/A

Revenue

N/A

Runtime

54 minutes

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