Takumi: A 60,000 Hour Story on the Survival of Human Craft (movie)
- User score: 9
- Production country: Japan, United Kingdom
- Producer: Clay Jeter
- Production companies: Saville Productions
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 3/19/2019
- Run time: 54 min.
Movie description
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?
