Hayakawa specifically chose to set the story in 1987, during Japan’s economic bubble period, seeing parallels with contemporary society. “Back then, Japan’s economy was growing and growing.

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the ...

The internationally-minded section is packing quite a punch this year, with 55 titles from nearly 50 countries making up its ...

Director-screenwriter: Chie Hayakawa Cast: Yui Suzuki, Franky Lily, Hikari Ishida, Yuumi Kawai, Ayumu Nakajima, Ryota Bando, Hana Hope Sales agent: Goodfellas Running time: 1 hr 56 min Cannes ...

Apart from a few fleeting topical nods, Hayakawa doesn’t delve too deeply into socioeconomic specifics, nor does she dramatize or even depict the power structures that implemented Plan 75 in the ...

Japanese director Chie Hayakawa, whose “Plan 75” received a special mention at Cannes, has secured Indonesian powerhouse KawanKawan Media as a co-production partner for her upcoming film ...

Hayakawa’s film is, of course, critical of Plan 75 in that the 78-year-old Michi (Chieko Baisho) does not want to die. This former hotel employee considers the option only because she has a lack ...

To judge by Chie Hayakawa’s powerfully sobering and sinisterly benign “Plan 75” — a scripted drama born from the ghoulish plausibility of the murderer’s vision — he may have been right.

Other filmmakers due in Cannes for the event include Japan’s Chie Hayakawa, whose feature film debut Plan 75 world premiered in Un Certain Regard, as well as Irish director Lorcan Finnegan, who ...

Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa, whose “Plan 75” earned a Camera d’Or Special Mention at the Cannes Film Festival, is back on the Croisette with competition title “Renoir,” a ...