To the Ends of the Earth

    To the Ends of the Earth
    2019

    Synopsis

    A young Japanese woman named Yoko finds her cautious and insular nature tested when she travels to Uzbekistan to shoot the latest episode of her travel variety show.

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      Cast

      • Atsuko MaedaYoko
      • Shota SometaniYoshioka
      • Tokio EmotoSasaki
      • Ryo KaseIwao
      • Adiz RadjabovTemur
      • Muyassar Berdiqulova
      • Maruf Otajonov

      Recommendations

      • 100

        Slant Magazine

        If Kurosawa is less interested in narrative dynamics, it’s because he’s focused on an acute understanding of societally and sociologically conditioned behavior.
      • 91

        The A.V. Club

        Beginning as an offbeat, fish-out-of-water travelogue, To The Ends Of The Earth gradually incorporates elements of an adventure movie, self-reflexive film shoot, and even musical melodrama. By the end, it’s no less than one of the most moving films Kurosawa has ever made.
      • 90

        Slashfilm

        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.
      • 90

        The New York Times

        Kurosawa’s command of film form gives the movie an embracing magnetism despite its seeming thinness of plot.
      • 89

        Austin Chronicle

        It’s a slow burn of a film, one that creeps through the consciousness. But it is not without levity.
      • 88

        RogerEbert.com

        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.
      • 80

        CineVue

        To the Ends of the Earth is a light, airy and fun journey with flashes of poetry.
      • 80

        The Hollywood Reporter

        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.