There are few moments in life more tumultuous or chaotic in life than the passing of a parent, especially when you're young. This is the situation that young Fuki Okita (Yui Suzuki) must wrestle with ...

'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.

The announcement that a film called “Renoir” would be screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was not necessarily cause for rejoicing among those who don’t look beyond the titles of the selected ...

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 ...

In the midst of a society that, as we are told by one of the characters in Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir, is characterized by diligence and modesty, young Fuki Okita (Yui Suzuki) is living on instinct and ...

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, ...

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 ...

With 2022’s “Plan 75,” debuting Japanese director Chie Hayakawa explored a delicately dystopian cautionary tale about prizing one’s elders in a famously aging society. Absent that film’s hooky high ...