Earlier this week, we shared our feature highlighting the best festival premieres in 2019 that were still seeking distribution in the United States. Just a few days later, we’re thrilled to exclusively announce one of our favorites has now found a home.
KimStim has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and was a selection at Tiff, Nyff, BFI London, Busan, Viennale, AFI Fest, Tokyo Iff, Taipei Golden Horse Ff, and more in recent months.
Commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, the film stars J-pop icon Atusko Maeda, formerly of the mega-selling girl group AKB48, traveling to Uzbekistan to host an episode of a TV travel show. Along the way, her chipper, though somewhat insular persona begins to unravel, threatening her...
KimStim has acquired all U.S. and Canadian rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s To the Ends of the Earth, which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival, and was a selection at Tiff, Nyff, BFI London, Busan, Viennale, AFI Fest, Tokyo Iff, Taipei Golden Horse Ff, and more in recent months.
Commissioned to mark the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and the central Asian republic of Uzbekistan, the film stars J-pop icon Atusko Maeda, formerly of the mega-selling girl group AKB48, traveling to Uzbekistan to host an episode of a TV travel show. Along the way, her chipper, though somewhat insular persona begins to unravel, threatening her...
- 1/8/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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