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Please note: The dialogue in Uzbek is intentionally not subtitled. This is an artistic choice by the filmmakers. Celebrating 25 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Uzbekistan, Yoko (J-Pop star Atusko Maeda), a reporter, heads to the landlocked country with a crew to file tourism reports. There, the introverted Yoko harbors a dream of becoming a singer while going through the motions of her job in this faraway, alienating place.
Yoko is wandering in a land scarred by both the Soviets and World War II, a land of myths and the people who live among those myths, a place open to tourism but on its own terms. Undoubtedly weird, To the Ends of the Earth celebrates the beautiful oddity in all of us. “[I]n the most surprising place… [Kurosawa] has found rejuvenation, a thematic space in which his uncommon delicacy and floaty subjectivity can thrive…” --Variety
Director Biography
Kiyoshi Kurosawa was born in 1955 in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. His career is as fascinating as any filmmaker living, with over 20 films over four decades, including Cure (1997), Pulse (2001), Daguerrotype (2016) and Before We Vanish (2017), the last two appearing at MSPFF.
Press
"[I]n the most surprising place… [Kurosawa] has found rejuvenation, a thematic space in which his uncommon delicacy and floaty subjectivity can thrive…" - Variety
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