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

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 Herself

Jon Bruner Himself

Martin Ford Himself

Shigeo Kiuchi Himself

Nahoko Kojima Herself

Neil MacGregor Narrator

Hisato Nakahigashi Himself

Katsuaki Suganuma Himself

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