'Plan 75' director Chie Hayakawa graduates to Cannes competition with a slender but appealingly impressionistic story of an inquisitive young girl's summer of life, death and amateur parapsychology.

In her second film, Japanese director Chie Hayakawa ('Plan 75') tells a deeply personal story about a crucial summer in the life of an observant 11-year-old. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic We ...

MANILA, Philippines — "Renoir," a Japanese film co-produced by the Philippines' Nathan Studios will compete in the 2025 Cannes competition slate. Nathan Studios' founder, actress Sylvia Sanchez, ...

Cannes: The "Plan 75" director follows her debut with a cuter but similarly morbid story about a girl making sense of her father's imminent death in 1980s Japan. Her name is Fuki (gifted 11-year-old ...

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the ...