A Pale View of Hills (2025)

Original title

遠い山なみの光

Directed by

Kei Ishikawa

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, Poland, Japan

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

12A

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A widow living in England in the 1980s drifts in and out of memories of her life in post-war Japan. The story moves between these two time periods as she recalls the people and events that shaped her.

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What happens

A Pale View of Hills is a 2025 drama film written and directed by Kei Ishikawa, based on the 1982 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. The plot follows a widow's memories unraveling between Japan in the 1950s and England in the 1980s. It stars Suzu Hirose, Fumi Nikaido, Yō Yoshida and Camilla Aiko. A Pale View of Hills had its world premiere at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival on 15 May 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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