Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft
MovieTitle | Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft |
User score | 9 |
Release date | Mar 19, 2019 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Clay Jeter |
Production country | Japan, United Kingdom |
Production companies | Saville Productions |
Run time | 54 min. |
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?