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Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Pale View of Hills’ Gets Film Adaptation With Japan’s Bunbuku & U.K.’s Number 9


Kazuo Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills will be distributed by GAGA and produced by Bunbuku and Number 9 Films, with the release set for summer 2025.

A Pale View of Hills is a mystery drama that traces the unraveling of a Japanese widow’s secret memories that cross over between post-war Nagasaki, Japan in the 1950s and England in the 1980s. “I’m a great admirer of Ishikawa-san’s previous movie, A Man, and I’ve been very excited from the first day he expressed his wish to adapt my novel, A Pale View of Hills,” Ishiguro said. “The story itself concerns the yearnings, hopes and fears of the generation that emerged in a rapidly changing Japan after the horrors of World War Two and the atomic bombings.

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‘A Pale View of Hills,’ Debut Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Now Filming for Japan’s Bunbuku and U.K.’s Number 9