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 en 54 minutes

Rating: 9

Plot

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

Nora Atkinson

Nora Atkinson

Herself

Jon Bruner

Jon Bruner

Himself

Martin Ford

Martin Ford

Himself

Shigeo Kiuchi

Shigeo Kiuchi

Himself

Nahoko Kojima

Nahoko Kojima

Herself

Neil MacGregor

Neil MacGregor

Narrator

Hisato Nakahigashi

Hisato Nakahigashi

Himself

Katsuaki Suganuma

Katsuaki Suganuma

Himself

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