A Pale View of Hills

Dir Kei Ishikawa, Jap, 2025, 123 mins, Japanese with subtitles
Suzu Hirose, Fumi Nikaido, Camilla Aiko

Based on Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, we follow a young journalist desperate to understand her mum’s history before her birth in 1950s Nagasaki. An elegant, moving and hopeful account of the generational impact of war.

A fascinating, moving exploration of Japanese family life in the traumatised, bomb-blasted aftermath of the Second World War THE TIMES