Suzu Hirose cast in movie “A Pale View of Hills”

Suzu Hirose is cast in movie “A Pale View of Hills.” The film is based on 1982 novel  “A Pale View of Hills” by Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize in 2017 and wrote the original novel that was made into the 1993 British film “The Remains of the Day.” Kei Ishikawa (“A Man“) will direct the movie and also handle the screenplay adaptation. Filming for the movie has already commenced.

“A Pale View of Hills” will be released sometime during summer, 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.