“Plan 75,” which won a top prize at Cannes, and was Japan’s Oscar submission last year, sensitively addresses the topic of euthanasia. In her feature film debut, writer/director Chie Hayakawa expanded ...

"We're all alone in life." KimStim has announced an official US release date for this indie from Japan titled Plan 75, marking the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Chie Hayakawa. It premiered in ...

In “Plan 75,” an alternately warm and chilling dispatch from a dystopian near-future, death mostly happens out of sight, just a few steps beyond the frame. Sometimes we see the grim aftermath: a body ...

In this quietly bold debut feature, the Japanese government offers a euthanasia program and a 78-year-old woman considers her future. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

A diet of rice and tofu, plenty of regular, gentle exercise and excellent hospitals: the Japanese have nailed the formula for getting old prolifically. With a little less than 30% of the population ...

“Plan 75,” Hayakawa Chie’s Japanese dystopian drama which world premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, has been sold in a raft of territories by Urban Sales. The movie is set in Japan, in a near ...

Chie Hayakawa's raw and sobering debut imagines a near-future Japan in which the elderly are encouraged to volunteer for euthanization. On July 26, 2016, a 26-year-old ex-employee of a Japanese care ...

There are simply too many senior citizens who are dragging down the economy. An enticing offer, the eponymous Plan 75, includes a dedicated phone line, a generous cash gift, funeral expenses and a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Loaded Films founder Eiko Mizuno-Gray and Kinoshita-Kansei Group CEO Masahide Kinoshita have teamed up to launch Tokyo-based production company, Kinofaction, which aims to focus on minority ...