Distant Hills, Fading Shadows

In 1982 England, a young aspiring half-Japanese, half-British writer sets out to chronicle his mother's past. The story unfolds in 1952 Britain, where Etsuko, a Japanese woman who emigrated after the war, is haunted by memories of her final days in Nagasaki, triggered by her eldest daughter's suicide. Etsuko encounters Sachiko, a woman preparing to leave for a new life abroad with her daughter, full of hope for the future. Yet, as the writer pieces together clues and fragments of his mother's memories, he gradually uncovers a truth that diverges from reality... Directed by Ishikawa Kei, this adaptation of Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's early同名 novel weaves dual timelines to portray the struggles of post-war women, capturing a surface calm that belies turbulent undercurrents, reflecting the repressed and weighty collective memory and pain of a transformative era.