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  • 2023
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2023
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 53 m
Plan 75

Summary Government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

Directed By: Chie Hayakawa

Written By: Jason Gray, Chie Hayakawa

  • 2023
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2023
  • Kimstim Films
  • 1 h 53 m

Plan 75

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Summary Government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

Directed By: Chie Hayakawa

Written By: Jason Gray, Chie Hayakawa

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Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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100
Apr 18, 2023
Legislation has passed to fix Japan’s “aging problem,” and temper hate crimes against the elderly: anyone over the age of seventy-five can apply for government-funded assisted suicide. From this bleak premise, Chie Hayakawa’s beautifully humanist Plan 75 takes flight.
By Marya E. Gates FULL REVIEW
80
May 15, 2023
This is strong work for a debut feature, and while not presenting assisted suicide itself with the greatest of nuance, Plan 75 is an accomplished portrait of capitalist alienation.
By Christopher Machell FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 21, 2023
There are things to cherish: busily moving between sterile offices and boxy, lived-in apartments, the film keeps you guessing about the practicalities and implications of its central conceit to such an extent that its moments of real poignancy can catch you off guard. A lot of this comes down to Baisho’s heartbreaking central performance.
By Rory O'Connor FULL REVIEW
70
May 4, 2023
Hayakawa keeps her story at an intimate and, for the most part, effective human scale. Baisho’s beautifully calibrated performance holds us close, turning Michi’s every step — a brief stint as a traffic guard, a trip to a cafe she once frequented with her husband — into a quiet act of resistance against her perceived uselessness.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 18, 2023
Plan 75 might have been a risible exercise in emotional manipulation if not for the sensitive tone with which Hiyakawa approaches all of her characters.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
60
May 12, 2023
The high concept becomes a near irrelevance as we struggle with a humanist story that lacks the emotional zest Hirokazu Koreeda habitually brings to related material. The messages are inarguable. The means of delivery leaves something to be desired.
By Donald Clarke FULL REVIEW
60
May 10, 2023
This is a poignant and weird film.
By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Daluyong Studios, Doha Film Institute, Dongyu Club, Eurozoom, Fondation Franco-Japonaise Sasakawa, Fusee, Happinet Phantom Studios, Institut Français, Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, La Région Île-de-France, Le Studio Orlando, Loaded Films, Plan 75 Production Committee, SS Kobo, Urban Factory, Urban Sales, WOWOW
Release Date Apr 21, 2023
Duration 1 h 53 m
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Website https://www.loadedfilms.jp/plan75
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Awards

Thessaloniki Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Asian Film Awards
• 4 Nominations
Fribourg International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations

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