Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro ‘s A Pale View of Hills will be distributed by GAGA Corporation and produced by Japan ‘s Bunbuku and the U.K.’s Number 9 Films .
Set to be released in Japan in summer 2025 and already in production, A Pale View of Hills is exec-produced by Ishiguro and directed by Kei Ishikawa . Ishikawa directed Gukoroku: Traces of Sin and A Man , which both premiered in the Venice Film Festival. U-Next’s Hiroyuki Ishiguro will lead the producing team of the film.
A Pale View of Hills is Ishiguro’s debut novel, with his other works like Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go already adapted for the screen. Suzu Hirose from Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister and The Third Murder will star in the film. 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.
Japan’s Bunbuku is behind Kore-eda’s Monster , which won Best Screenplay at Cannes. The U.K.
’s Number 9 Films has produced titles like Living and Carol . Ishiguro penned the screenplay for Living , which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Ishiguro, originally born in Nagasaki, moved to England with his parents at the age of five and received the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize in 1982 for his debut novel.
“I’m a great admirer of Ishikawa-san’s previous movie, A Man , and I’ve been very excited from the first day he ex.