Chie Hayakawa

Chie Hayakawa (Japanese: 早川千絵; born 20 August, 1976; Tokyo) is a Japanese filmmaker. Born in Tokyo and studied photography at School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her short films “Identify This Girl” (2000) and “Photography of Zero” (2003) were included in the exhibition at SVA Gallery in NY. “What you are holding is not an apple” (2000) and “Vajra/Vajra” (2001) were selected in International Festival of Cinema and Technology for two consecutive years and shown in Los Angels, London, and Toronto.

Niagara (2013)

An 18-year-old girl, YAMAME (Saki Itami), who grew up in an orphanage, came to know that her grandparents are alive. Her grandpa killed her parents 15 years ago and has been on death row.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chie Hayakawa
CAST:  Saki Itami  •  Keita Hoshino  •  Masako Kawachi

An 18-year-old girl, YAMAME (Saki Itami), who grew up in an orphanage, came to know that her grandparents are alive. Her grandpa killed her parents 15 years ago and has been on death row.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chie Hayakawa
CAST:  Saki Itami  •  Keita Hoshino  •  Masako Kawachi

Ten Years Japan (2018)

Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yusuke Kinoshita  •  Akiyo Fujimura  •  Kei Ishikawa  •  Chie Hayakawa  •  Megumi Tsuno
CAST:  Hana Sugisaki  •  Jun Kunimura  •  Taiga Nakano  •  Satoru Kawaguchi

Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Yusuke Kinoshita  •  Akiyo Fujimura  •  Kei Ishikawa  •  Chie Hayakawa  •  Megumi Tsuno
CAST:  Hana Sugisaki  •  Jun Kunimura  •  Taiga Nakano  •  Satoru Kawaguchi

Plan 75 (2018)

In this chilling work of speculative fiction, a government program facilitates the voluntary euthanasia of its senior citizens during an aging crisis in Japan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chie Hayakawa
CAST:  Satoru Kawaguchi  •  Motomi Makiguchi  •  Mayumi Chihiro  •  Kazue Mitani

In this chilling work of speculative fiction, a government program facilitates the voluntary euthanasia of its senior citizens during an aging crisis in Japan.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chie Hayakawa
CAST:  Satoru Kawaguchi  •  Motomi Makiguchi  •  Mayumi Chihiro  •  Kazue Mitani

Plan 75 (2022)

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 whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chie Hayakawa
CAST:  Chieko Baisho  •  Hayato Isomura  •  Yuumi Kawai  •  Taka Takao

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 whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Chie Hayakawa
CAST:  Chieko Baisho  •  Hayato Isomura  •  Yuumi Kawai  •  Taka Takao

May in the Winter (2016)

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