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

Japanese film A Pale View of Hills will have a theatrical rollout in the UK from March 13 next year, after a busy festival run from Cannes, to Toronto, London, Shanghai and Taipei, among others.

The film will also open in Taiwan’s theaters from December 5 this year.

Director Kei Ishikawa sits down with Deadline to talk about collaborating with prolific novelist Kazuo Ishiguro , getting advice from fellow director Hirokazu Kore-eda, and preparing his next film, The Excursion (working title), which will be set in Poland.

Adapted from Ishiguro’s debut novel, A Pale View of Hills is a mystery drama set in England in the 1980s.

The film follows a young Japanese-British writer named Niki (played by Camilla Aiko). She plans to write a book based on her mother Etsuko’s post-war