A Pale View of Hills: the legacy of atomic bombings in Japan is explored in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel

A Pale View of Hills: the legacy of atomic bombings in Japan is explored in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel

How much do any of us really know about who we are? This question haunts director Kei Ishikawa’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982). The complex story follows “unreliable narrator” Etsuko from Japan to England. A Pale View of Hills starts in 1982, as Etsuko (Yoh Yoshida) packs up her English country house, preparing to move. Her daughter Niki (Camilla Aiko) arrives, taking advantage of the domestic upheaval t…

A Pale View of Hills (Film Review) – Beautiful But Shallow

Adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1982 debut novel of the same name, Kei Ishikawa’s A Pale View of Hills  is a delight for the eyes – but the execution of its dual-timeline narrative is far less sumptuous. In the 1980s, Niki (Camilla Aiko) is paying a last visit to her family home in rural England before…