This is not dystopian sci-fi or horror, nor an anti-euthanasia screed...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 18, 2024

Chie Hayakawa’s low-key, carefully considered dystopian drama Plan 75 might be about death, but it sings with a great appreciation for living.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 3, 2024

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.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 12, 2024

The pacified approach to dystopia from Hayakawa feels proper for Plan 75.

| Jul 7, 2024

Hayakawa’s quietly realist treatment of the dystopian premise makes for haunting viewing.

| Dec 8, 2023

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

Haunting and thought-provoking, but nowhere as grim as it ought to be, this one sticks with you as every great work of science fiction should.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 8, 2023

This is strong work for a debut feature, and while not presenting assisted suicide itself with the greatest of nuance, Plan 75 is an accomplished portrait of capitalist alienation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2023

This is not a story about despair -- it's one that inspires hope and, if we're lucky, change.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 8, 2023

It's a very very moving and affecting film... It's terribly distressing, but it's very, very low-key, and it also actually allows itself to have moments of redemption in its later sections.

| Dec 8, 2023

The first feature from Japanese female director Chie Hayakawa seethes with violence under its soft-spoken exterior.

| Dec 8, 2023

Stylistically, it looks a bit like a training film. What this means -- the brilliance of this film -- is that Hayakawa is able to make the idea of wiping out a generation seem drably normal within about quarter of an hour, something to ponder in itself.

| Sep 21, 2023

Lest this sound too somber, know that the tone and staging are thoughtful, even heartening.

| Aug 11, 2023

Those who let the sensitivity of Plan 75 wash over them will walk out of the theatre and immediately call someone they love.

| Jul 24, 2023

The best speculative fiction is fact taken to its extreme conclusion. In its pointed observation, Plan 75 echoes Cuarón’s Children of Men. One hopes it proves more warning than prophecy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 12, 2023

One can find discreet compassion without condescension; and that’s positive. However, some of the parts are more engrossing than the whole.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 25, 2023

It's really quite extraordinary... A first-rate debut.

| May 17, 2023

In its double portrait of the neglected elderly and the guilty young, the film offers a timely, compassionate reaffirmation of family ties in a fast-changing world.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2023

Plan 75 is impressive in its subtle humanism and to be commended for not relying on horror for its impact but it is perhaps a little too sombre to be effective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2023

This is subdued storytelling that, while it drags a little in its pacing, asks tough questions about society’s relationship with elderly people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 14, 2023