PLAN 75

In Japan, government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

“We don’t have Plan 75 in real, but everything else depicted in the film is existing such as the fact that there are so many elderly people have to work because of insecure pension system, that they have hard time finding a place to live, that they feel being pushed out from society, and that they tend to hesitate to seek help to welfare due to feeling of shame. There is an atmosphere to give pressure to the elderly that make them feel useless. Intolerance, apathy, and lack of imagination to other’s pain are the most threatening thing that I want to depict in this film.”

DIRECTOR: Chie Hayakawa. STORY: Chie Hayakawa, Jason Gray. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Hideho Urata. FILM EDITING: Anne Klotz. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Setsuko Shiokawa. COSTUME DESIGN: Kanako Okamoto. MUSIC: Remi Boubal. SOUND: Masaru Usui. CAST: Baisho Chieko, Isomura Hayato, Stefanie Arianne, Kawai Yuumi, Takao Taka. PRODUCERS: Eiko Mizuno-Gray, Jason Gray, Frédéric Corvez, Maéva Savinien. PRODUCTION: Loaded Films, Urban Factory, Happinet-Phantom Studios, Dongyu Club, WOWOW, Fusee.