India, Dec. 19 -- In a first for him, Japanese filmmaker Kei Ishikawa is excited that his directorial, A Pale View of Hills, after recently being screened at the International Film Festival of India and the Cannes film festival, will soon be available in India via a streaming service. And he agrees that till a few years back, before the OTT boom, bringing his film here would have been difficult. "That's true. I am super happy because of it," he shares. "But at the same time, I know students of cinema would anyway have downloaded it from somewhere. When they want it, they find a way! But there are so many small, arthouse films from all over the world that are still not available, and streaming platforms are helping them a lot," he adds. His film is an adaptation of the 1982 novel by the same name, authored by Kazuo Ishiguro. Speaking of the challenges in adaptation, he says, "When I decided to make a film on this novel, I felt I had to change some things. The book was told from a mother's point of view. We changed it to a story about how the daughter discovers the mother's history." Steering the conversation towards the popularity of Indian films in Japan, he shares, "People watch a lot of Bollywood films; they are very popular, especially Baahubali. A lot of my friends watch them. I also recently got to know that the Indian film industry makes a lot of arthouse films. I saw some in Goa. I have to start watching more of them," Kei says....