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

Documentary

Synopsis

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?

Credits

Director

Clay Jeter

Cast

Hisato Nakahigashi as Himself

Jon Bruner as Himself

Katsuaki Suganuma as Himself

Martin Ford as Himself

Nahoko Kojima as Herself

Neil MacGregor as Narrator

Nora Atkinson as Herself

Shigeo Kiuchi as Himself