2025 was the year Japan’s box office returned

Anime ruled the screens once again, but a kabuki drama surprised us all.

Kei Ishikawa On Adapting Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘A Pale View Of Hills’

Japanese film A Pale View of Hills open in UK theaters from March 13, after a busy festival run from Cannes, to Toronto, London, Shanghai and Taipei.

‘A Pale View of Hills’: A chilling, borderless adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel

Kei Ishikawa turns the Nobel Prize-winning author’s novel into a haunting meditation on memory, loss and elusive truths.

Adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel premieres at Cannes

The author says that adapting the novel — which he wrote when he was 25 — was different from bringing his other books to the big screen.

'A Pale View of Hills' Review: Kazuo Ishiguro's Book Evades Adaptation

A British-Japanese writer probes her mother's past in Kei Ishikawa's 'A Pale View of Hills,' clumsily adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel.

'A Pale View of Hills' Review: Kazuo Ishiguro's Book Evades Adaptation

A British-Japanese writer probes her mother's past in Kei Ishikawa's 'A Pale View of Hills,' clumsily adapted from Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting novel.

‘Previously Saved Version’: An intriguing premise gets lost in space

Kei Ishikawa’s psychodrama about an affluent couple that has left a supposedly uninhabitable Earth is attractive to look at but never more than mildly engaging.

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.

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