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Foreign language (Film)
Plan 75
Subtitled
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Japan, in a near future. The government program 'Plan 75' encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized in order to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman who loses the means to live independently, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino caregiver face choices of life and death.
Running time 120 minutes
- "a film on enforced death and dissolution could have rarely been more benign, tender, and sentient" - New Indian Express
- "very carefully avoids sentimentality and the filmmaker elegantly demonstrates her many gifts" - Cineuropa
- "in its haunting closing shot, “Plan 75” achieves something close to an epiphany" - Japan Times
- "the brilliance of this film – is that Hayakawa is able to make the idea of wiping out a generation seem drably normal" - Deadline
- "a plaintive wail that sneaks up on you, with its minimal dialogue and gentle poetic realism" - Vulture