The official trailer for the movie "Distant Mountain Light" (directed by Ishikawa Kei, to be released on September 5th), starring actress Suzu Hirose, was released on July 16th.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in Nagasaki in the 1950s and the UK in the 1980s, it is a human mystery that uncovers the secrets of the memories of Etsuko (Hirose), a woman who experienced the atomic bomb. It was officially entered in the "Un Certain Regard" category of the festival.
Niki has a Japanese mother and an English father. She dropped out of university to become a writer, and wanted to write a work about the life of her mother, Etsuko, who experienced the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and moved to England after the war, losing her eldest daughter, who shared both good times and bad. Etsuko begins to talk about her past memories, which she had kept silent about since being broken up by her second daughter. It was a memory of a summer spent with a woman named Sachiko and her young daughter, whom she met in Nagasaki shortly after the war. However, Niki gradually begins to notice discrepancies in the story... This is the story.
Hirose plays Etsuko in Nagasaki, Fumi Nikaido plays Sachiko, Yo Yoshida plays Etsuko in England, Kohei Matsushita plays Etsuko's husband, Kohei Matsushita plays his father, and Camilla Aiko, who was selected through an audition, plays Niki.
