Chie Hayakawa in Tokyo. Her new film “Plan 75” takes on one of the biggest elephants in the room in Japan: the challenges of dealing with the world’s oldest society.

In 'Renoir,' director Chie Hayakawa tells a deeply personal and poetic story about a transformative summer in the life of an 11 year-old-girl.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With 2022’s “Plan 75,” debuting Japanese director Chie Hayakawa explored a delicately dystopian cautionary tale about prizing one’s elders in a famously aging society. Absent that film’s ...

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 ...

Strong performances drive Japanese director’s Hayakawa Chie's touching and haunting sophomore effort, which premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Continue to Deadline SKIP AD.

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 ...