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- Movie: A Pale View of Hills
- Romaji: Toi Yamanami no Hikari
- Japanese: 遠い山なみの光
- Director: Kei Ishikawa
- Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro (novel), Kei Ishikawa
- Producer: Hiroyuki Ishiguro, Miyuki Fukuma, Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen
- Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski
- World Premiere: May 15, 2025 (Cannes Film Festival)
- Release Date: September 5, 2025
- Runtime: 123 min.
- Genre: Mystery
- Distributor: Gaga Corporation
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©
In the 1980's, Niki lives in London. She has a Japanese mother, Etsuko (Suzu Hirose), but her English father passed away. After dropping out of a university, Niki pursues her dream of becoming a writer. To write her own book, she visits her mother Etsuko. Niki has rare visited Etsuko's home since the death of Niki's older half-sister. Etsuko lives alone in the suburbs of London. She experienced the atomic bombing in Nagasaki, Japan and came to England, but Niki doesn't \know anything about her mother's past.
After the death of her husband and her daughter from her first marriage, Etsuko has lived alone in her home that is filled with memories. After spending a few days with Niki, Etsuko begins to talk about a strange dream which she has been having recently. Her dream is about a woman and her young daughter that Etsuko met when she was living in Nagasaki, Japan in the 1950's.
Notes
- Based on novel "A Pale View of Hills" by Kazuo Ishiguro (published February, 1982 by Faber and Faber).
- Movie screened in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.
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