The end of the journey, the beginning of the world

On the other side of the world, location host Ye Zi and the camera team came to distant Uzbekistan to film a TV travel program. Ye Zi happily tasted local delicacies and experienced traditional fishing in front of the camera. Even if the food was cold and undercooked and the fishermen made things difficult for her, she still tried her best to put on a sweet and dedicated smile and silently swallowed all her grievances. She could only whisper her loneliness on the phone with her boyfriend late at night. Just as he was about to call it a day and return home, the originally scheduled filming scene was cancelled. The two parties, who did not understand each other in culture and language, were in a dispute. Should they give up filming or find another subject? The predicament at the end of the world also leaves everyone in a state of confusion, with nowhere to escape... This film was produced to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Uzbekistan. It is also director Kurosawa Kiyoshi's another transnational work after "The Developing Woman", which was shot entirely overseas. Former AKB48 idol Maeda Atsuko starred as the tortured female host, and the production team, who encountered many difficulties in the performances of Sometani Shota and Kase Ryo, used a cold-toned psychological analysis to turn the seemingly happy and routine travel program production into a true and false dialectic on cultural shock and alienation, and spoke of the unspeakable loneliness of modern people in a foreign land.