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Plan 75

Play trailer 1:58 Poster for Plan 75 Released Apr 21, 2023 1h 52m Drama Sci-Fi Play Trailer Watchlist
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In a near dystopian future, Japan's government launches PLAN 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population's social and economic burdens. In Chie Hayakawa's remarkable and sensitive feature film debut, the lives of three ordinary citizens intersect in this new reality as they confront the crushing callousness of a world ready to dispose of those no longer deemed valuable. Legendary Japanese actress Chieko Baishō stars as a 78-year-old Michi who considers signing up for the program after losing her meager but fulfilling hotel job and the means to live independently. A young Plan 75 salesman Himoru (Hayato Isomura) initially believes in the program's benefits and serves as the human face of the program. And Maria (Stephanie Arianne), a Filipino care worker living overseas, reluctantly accepts a position with PLAN 75 to send money home to her ailing daughter. On the surface, the plan and its hawkers exude a kindness that serves as the film's chilling vision of bureaucratic indifference and our increasing loss of interconnectedness. However, Hayakawa’s view is far from grim, as these characters soon learn to fully reckon with their own lives and what it truly means to live.

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Sensitive and insightful, Plan 75 uses its sci-fi setting to explore our relationship with death -- and what it really means to live.

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Christina Newland iNews.co.uk This is not dystopian sci-fi or horror, nor an anti-euthanasia screed... Rated: 4/5 Sep 18, 2024 Full Review Sara Merican Sight & Sound Hayakawa’s quietly realist treatment of the dystopian premise makes for haunting viewing. Dec 8, 2023 Full Review Tim Grierson Screen International This is a muted, resigned story about the way that countries and corporations follow their own self-interests rather than helping those most in need. Plan 75 may seem like it’s about ageing, but more accurately it is about the importance of community. Dec 8, 2023 Full Review William Stottor Loud and Clear Reviews Chie Hayakawa’s low-key, carefully considered dystopian drama Plan 75 might be about death, but it sings with a great appreciation for living. Rated: 3.5/5 Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Jericho Tadeo The Asian Cut Baishô is the film’s lighthouse: as Plan 75’s emotional waves come crashing down — because the film inevitably does reach a harrowing climax — we can’t help but look to her for hope. Rated: 8/10 Jul 12, 2024 Full Review Joshua Polanski Boston Hassle The pacified approach to dystopia from Hayakawa feels proper for Plan 75. Jul 7, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve C Plan 75 is more restrictive than MAID in CA. At least you need to be at least 75. Anyone can ask to be served with MAID, if they want to die; even an able bodied man, living in government housing, signed up just for feeling hopeless that his life would improve. You want it America? No problem. If the marxist take over, this will be a reality. First they will introduce it as voluntary, then they will make it mandatory in the name of stopping climate change. Call it the modern version of the ChiComs' Cultural Revolution. Whether or not I am trolling is up to you. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 08/22/24 Full Review Tim G I think my mild disappointment was how the sci-fi element is really only a backdrop for which to explore aging/community/etc. It's really a small movie in that way, and well done. I had been hoping for something larger though, exploring what this would mean for a society as a whole. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/11/24 Full Review Siobhan F This film stayed with me longer than very many films. It definitely opens up a thought provoking lens on euthanasia. As a film, I found it a beautiful, soft, gentle, sensitive film. Deeply sad and yet life affirming. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/01/23 Full Review Andrew H H I thought the approach a touch cold, although I suppose the subject matter/situation warranted this. Some smart little touches, that set it apart from the average. Not something I would watch again, but very accomplished. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/22/23 Full Review Sonja W This is a sensitive film with a story idea that is actually utterly plausible. The film does make you reflect on how society treats older people and how the young might develop a more compassionate perspective toward them. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/05/23 Full Review Medicine C A unique take on the result of societies that value productivity over wisdom...and one (of many) conclusion: the non-productive are of little value, a weight even. A solution that could have been presented in a positive light, we are instead shown the underbelly of this "solution". And the lack of ease of all participants. Editing was unique, gave us time to integrate the realities presented. All of the vagueness suddenly added up to a very concrete sum. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In a near dystopian future, Japan's government launches PLAN 75, a program encouraging the elderly to terminate their own lives to relieve its rapidly aging population's social and economic burdens. In Chie Hayakawa's remarkable and sensitive feature film debut, the lives of three ordinary citizens intersect in this new reality as they confront the crushing callousness of a world ready to dispose of those no longer deemed valuable. Legendary Japanese actress Chieko Baishō stars as a 78-year-old Michi who considers signing up for the program after losing her meager but fulfilling hotel job and the means to live independently. A young Plan 75 salesman Himoru (Hayato Isomura) initially believes in the program's benefits and serves as the human face of the program. And Maria (Stephanie Arianne), a Filipino care worker living overseas, reluctantly accepts a position with PLAN 75 to send money home to her ailing daughter. On the surface, the plan and its hawkers exude a kindness that serves as the film's chilling vision of bureaucratic indifference and our increasing loss of interconnectedness. However, Hayakawa’s view is far from grim, as these characters soon learn to fully reckon with their own lives and what it truly means to live.
Director
Chie Hayakawa
Producer
Eiko Mizuno Gray, Jason Gray, Frédéric Corvez, Maéva Savinien
Screenwriter
Chie Hayakawa
Distributor
KimStim
Production Co
WOWOW, Dongyu Club, Loaded Films, Fusee, Urban Factory, Happinet-Phantom Studios
Genre
Drama, Sci-Fi
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Theaters)
Apr 21, 2023, Limited
Runtime
1h 52m
Sound Mix
Digital 5.1
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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