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  • 2020
  • Anticipate Pictures
  • 2 h
  • 2020
  • Anticipate Pictures
  • 2 h

Summary Yoko (Atsuko Maeda) travels with a small crew to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her travel reality show. In front of the camera, her persona is carefree and happy-go-lucky, but behind the scenes she is cautious and introverted. Despite her best efforts, the filming of the television series ends unsuccessfully, and frustrated by the fa...

Directed By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Written By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  • 2020
  • Anticipate Pictures
  • 2 h
  • 2020
  • Anticipate Pictures
  • 2 h

To the Ends of the Earth

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews
85
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
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Summary Yoko (Atsuko Maeda) travels with a small crew to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her travel reality show. In front of the camera, her persona is carefree and happy-go-lucky, but behind the scenes she is cautious and introverted. Despite her best efforts, the filming of the television series ends unsuccessfully, and frustrated by the fa...

Directed By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Written By: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

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100
Jan 24, 2020
If Kurosawa is less interested in narrative dynamics, it’s because he’s focused on an acute understanding of societally and sociologically conditioned behavior.
By Sam C. Mac FULL REVIEW
90
Dec 9, 2020
Kurosawa’s command of film form gives the movie an embracing magnetism despite its seeming thinness of plot.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

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90
Jan 24, 2020
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth encapsulates one woman’s blossoming from a reserved drone into a willing participant with Maeda’s subtle dynamism from a perpetually placid and pouty countenance to a focused visage.
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88
Dec 14, 2020
Trying to explain how this movie works as well as it does, without using excessive jargon or some kind of audiovisual aide, is tricky since “To the Ends of the Earth” isn’t about anything less than its heroine’s uncertain relationship with her foreign environment, and what she chooses to communicate simply by being seen and heard. Which is often thrilling to behold, but not so much to explain.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
80
Dec 19, 2020
Despite or perhaps because of its lightly sketched premise, To the Ends of the Earth emerges as the director’s most gracefully assured work in a while, though his natural gift for building tension is still made subtly manifest.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 24, 2020
A shaggy-seeming but carefully modulated affair, To the Ends of the Earth gradually emerges as an offbeat but persuasive investigation of culture-clashes and the potential for trans-global bridge-building.
By Neil Young FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 24, 2020
To the Ends of the Earth is a light, airy and fun journey with flashes of poetry.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Uzbekkino, King Records, Loaded Films, Tokyo Theatres
Release Date Dec 11, 2020
Duration 2 h
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Website https://www.facebook.com/tabisekamovie/
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Awards

Asian Film Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Locarno International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Nippon Connection Japanese Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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