Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Kill Japan’s elderly? Cannes film probes chilling idea

Japan

A Japanese filmmaker is shaking Cannes audiences with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanized in order to solve the problem of an aging population. “Plan 75,” directed and written by Japanese director and writer Chie Hayakawa, is based on a very real problem. Japan is the world’s … Read more