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

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

All the adventure a man can live, he lives. 2019-03-19 Japan, United Kingdom 54 Min. PG-13
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Documentary

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?

Cast

Nora Atkinson is Herself
Herself
Jon Bruner is Himself
Himself
Martin Ford is Himself
Himself
Shigeo Kiuchi is Himself
Himself
Nahoko Kojima is Herself
Herself
Neil MacGregor is Narrator
Narrator