ONLINE: To the Ends of the Earth
Feb 17, 2021 7:00 PM
Dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cast: Atsuko Maeda, Shota Sometani, Adiz Radjabov
In Uzbekistan, the crew for a Japanese travel show is running out of ideas for material to shoot. The host, Yoko, does her best to maintain her peppy persona when the cameras are rolling, but is losing her direction behind the scenes. Clutching her map, Yoko wanders the streets, markets, and monuments of Samarkand and Tashkent, searching for meaning in an unfamiliar landscape. Best known for his atmospheric and prescient social horror films like
Pulse and
Cure, veteran director Kiyoshi Kurosawaâs best and most fully-formed film in years finds absurdity, fear, and catharsis in a womanâs breakdown. In her fourth collaboration with the director, former J-pop superstar Atsuko Maeda excels as the moving center of the film, bringing us into Yokoâs internal journey from unmooring to transcendence. Hailed as âterrific⦠one of the most
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