1. To the Ends of the Earth | Rotten Tomatoes
Uzbekistan is a nightmare police state. Violence against women is savage and pervasive. The police routinely torture people. But in this offensively blinkered ...
Yoko (Atsuko Maeda) hosts a popular global travel show yet is cautious and insular like many young Japanese. But she has a bigger dream. On assignment in Uzbekistan, Yoko and her small TV crew attempt to catch a mythical fish but fail. They also film segments in Samarkand but feel it's lacking. Indifferent to her job, Yoko prefers texting her boyfriend in Tokyo. At night, she comes across a tied up goat and suggests releasing it on camera. The plan goes awry and Yoko feels indignant and naive. The team move to Tashkent where Yoko wanders into an opulent theatre, fantasizing she's on stage. She confides her ambitions to her cameraman but admits her heart's not ready. While filming, Yoko's timid nature inadvertently gets her in trouble with the police. At the station she hears of a disaster in Tokyo and realizes how important human communication truly is. Some of the team return to Japan but Yoko stays. As she ventures into the mountains she sings from the heart and her spirit is freed.
2. To the Ends of the Earth (2005) | Rotten Tomatoes
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3. To the Ends of the Earth Reviews - Metacritic
Kishoyi Kurosawa's film is quite unclassifiable. It's a drama, but with moments of comedy, some of them disturbing, with Yoko going through various awkward and ...
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 failure, she sets off into the mysterious country. Lost in the streets of Tashkent, she finds herself adrift and alone, confronting her deepest fears and hidden aspirations. [KimStim]
4. To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding - Goodreads
5 stars. 156 (40%). 4 stars. 132 (34%). 3 stars. 74 (19%). 2 stars. 16 (4%). 1 star. 6 (1%). Search review text. Filters. Loading... More reviews and ratings ...
To the Ends of the Earth, William Golding's classic sea…
5. To the Ends of the Earth movie review (2020) | Roger Ebert
11 dec 2020 · Are young Japanese men really that clueless and ruthlessly absorbed in their machismo. I'm talking about the heart-stopping amusement park ride, ...
To the Ends of the Earth is a movie where gorgeously lit and framed exterior photography, as well as consummately precise body-language-centric performances, often convey more than most dialogue could.
6. To the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Lowell | Goodreads
5 stars. 693 (28%). 4 stars. 808 (33%). 3 stars. 642 (26%). 2 stars. 189 (7%). 1 star. 66 (2%). Search review text. Filters. Loading... More reviews and ratings ...
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7. To the Ends of the Earth (2019) - Letterboxd
Overall, this really is a great travel show for people not wanting to go to this culturally rich place, starring a shy and super cute Atsuko Maeda. Evan Morgan.
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.
8. To The Ends Of The Earth, 1948 - Heart of Noir
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See AlsoUefa Euro 2024 Christmas EventA globetrotting noir that chases smuggled drugs from San Francisco to China to Egypt to Lebanon to Cuba, Robert Stevenson’s To the Ends of the Earth begins with one of the cruelest crimes in noir: spotted and chased by the Coast Guard, a drug smuggling freighter called the Kira Maru is forced to get rid of its “crew” of 100 Egyptian slaves by chaining them all to each other and dumping them overboard. Having witnessed this act helplessly through binoculars, United States Narcotics Agent Michael Barrows (Dick Powell) makes it his mission to avenge the slaves by eliminating the smuggling racket and its perpetrators, a commitment that takes him around the world, tracking each link in the chain backwards, some contacts going so far as suicide just to avoid talking. In China, Barrows meets Ann Grant (Signe Hasso), recently widowed from an engineer who may have been involved with the drug trade, and the orphan Chinese teenager Shu Pan Wu (Maylia) whom Grant is preparing to send back to the United States to start a new life. The film’s pace is fast, accelerated by Powell’s constant voiceover, which adds greater depth to the character and somehow never seems excessive or unnecessary, and even offers a few lessons on poppy harvesting and opium production. Featuring a couple of excellent twists, it’s an American noir set everywhere except America, the noir visual universe springing to life especially whenever the action takes place at dusk or at sea.
9. To the Ends of the Earth Review: A Masterful Reckoning with Fear
15 sep 2019 · Review: To the Ends of the Earth Masterfully Reckons with the Nature of Fear. With his latest, Kiyoshi Kurosawa celebrates the conquering of ...
With his latest, Kiyoshi Kurosawa celebrates the conquering of fear as our greatest hope against the world’s horrors.
10. To the Ends of the Earth review – dreamlike vision of clashing cultures
11 nov 2020 · His newest film is a sweet, sad, mysterious film in a vein of docu-realism and it really grew on me, largely due to the transparently emotional ...
A young reporter on assignment in Uzbekistan undertakes a minor rebellion in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s sweet, sad tale
11. 'To the Ends of the Earth' review: Moving, eye-opening tale
18 dec 2020 · “To the Ends of the Earth,” Kiyoshi Kurosawa's effortlessly absorbing, deceptively simple-looking new drama, is set entirely in Uzbekistan, ...
Atsuko Maeda plays a journalist on location in Uzbekistan in this absorbing, deceptively simple-looking drama.
12. To the Ends of the Earth (1948) - Letterboxd
Dick Powell stars as an agent who tracks major shipments of raw poppies before they are converted to opiates… Filipe Furtado. Review by Filipe Furtado. A ...
A treasury agent becomes obsessed with exposing an international drug ring.
13. Period Drama Review: To the Ends of the Earth (2005) - June Hur
16 aug 2013 · "This is a godless vessel. What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others." -Parson Colley . To the Ends of the Earth is a ...
. “This is a godless vessel. What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.” -Parson Colley . To the Ends of the Earth is a three-part drama based on William Golding’s s…
14. Film Review: 'To the Ends of the Earth' - Variety
15 okt 2019 · Film Review: 'To the Ends of the Earth'. Kiyoshi Kurosawa presents a discreetly insightful critique of cultural tourism in this tale of a naive ...
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