PLAN 75 : Amazon.com.au: Movies & TV
PLAN 75 : Amazon.com.au: Movies & TV
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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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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.
Bonus features include: Incdues filmmaker Chie Hayakawa’s short film: Niagara (2013)
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Bär
5.0 out of 5 stars Film from Japan
Reviewed in Germany on 3 August 2025
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Recht sinister vision of the future from Japan
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Misha
5.0 out of 5 stars Lost in the shuffle
Reviewed in Canada on 29 April 2024
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This movie is so hard to find anywhere that I decided to order a copy to be sure I had one. I suppose one may call it a simple movie. I first saw it on a transatlantic flight. It is so brilliantly directed and acted and with multiple plots about friendship, family ties, human respect, meaning in life, the meaning OF life, becoming old, the simple glorious joys in life like an early morning walk on a trafficless road in the cool crisp pre-dawn air. The sub-stories are easy to follow as they are all directly connected with Plan75.
It is a film about our society that has much to say about what we must contemplate as we have already well-passed the threshold into a new world.
The delivery was fast and efficient and the price was well worth it.
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