Plan 75 (2022)

January 25, 2024 6:25 PM

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman (Chieko Baisho) whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman (Hayato Isomura), and a young Filipino laborer (Stefanie Arianne) face choices of life and death. Directed by Chie Hayakawa and written by Chie Hayakawa and Jason Gray.
posted by edencosmic (2 comments total)

I admired this more than I liked it but I still think it's worth watching. The core performances are very strong, although their characters are sort of thinly drawn. I liked the pseudo-documentary direction/framing but I also think that kept me from fully engaging with these characters.

It's thoughtful and it's trying to say something even if I don't know it does. I do like dystopian stories about regular people. It's the second one I've watched this week. (The other was The Kitchen -- this was unplanned.)
posted by edencosmic at 6:32 PM on January 25 [1 favorite]

I haven't seen this yet. It sounds like it would make a good double-feature with The Ballad of Narayama, which is based on a folk tale I read in Japanese class in college, the title of which translates as "the mountain of granny abandonment." The idea has deep roots in Japanese society.
posted by adamrice at 8:34 AM on January 26