by Main trailer and poster added for movie “A Pale View of Hills” starring Suzu Hirose and Fumi Nikaido. The human mystery film recently held its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. The main trailer for the film begins with captions around the 6 second mark that states “‘Humans sometimes lie not to deceive others, but to fool themselves and turn a blind eye to the difficult truth.’ …Kazuo Ishiguro.” The quote is by author Kazuo Ishiguro, who wrote the original novel “A Pale View of Hills” that the movie is based on.
“A Pale View of Hills” will be released September 5, 2025 in Japan.
Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki: 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.
