Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature and the author of highly acclaimed film adaptations such as “The Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go”, wrote his debut feature-length novel “A Pale View of Hills” in 1982, for which he received the Royal Society of Literature Award. Set in his birthplace of Nagasaki, the film is a human mystery that unravels the secrets of “memories” that cross over time and place: Nagasaki in the 1950s, shortly after the war, and England in the 1980s.
Directed by Kei Ishikawa, whose “A Man” (2022) won the 46th Japan Academy Awards in 8 categories including Best Picture. Kazuo Ishiguro himself was also named as an executive producer for the film adaptation, which was produced by Number 9 Films, an independent British production company that is a regular winner of the world's top three film festivals and the British and American Academy Awards, and the 97th Academy Awards International Lava Films from Poland, known for “Girl with Needle,” which was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, joined Number 9 Films to produce this Japan-UK-Poland co-production.
Starring Suzu Hirose and a splendid cast including Fumi Nikaido, Yo Yoshida, Kohei Matsushita, and Tomokazu Miura, the film depicts a story that begins with “lies” told by women in the summer of 2025, the 80th anniversary of the end of the war.

Niki who has Japanese mother and English father lives in London. She has dropped out of college to become a writer, and visits her parents' home, which she has not been able to visit since the death of her half-sister. Her mother, Etsuko, had experienced the atomic bombing in Nagasaki and came to England after the war, but Niki has never heard anything about her mother's past. Etsuko, who had lost her husband and eldest daughter and was living alone in a house full of memories, begins to talk about a “dream” she has been having a lot lately. It was a dream about a woman named Sachiko, whom Etsuko had met when she was still living in Nagasaki, and her young daughter.

Suzu Hirose　Fumi Nikaido　Yo Yoshida

Aiko Camilla　Rie Shibata　Daichi Watanabe　Mio Suzuki

Kohei Matsushita ／ Tomokazu Miura