A Japanese filmmaker is shaking Cannes film audiences to the core with a dystopian vision of her country in which old people agree to be euthanized to solve the challenge of a rapidly aging population.
Japan is the most rapidly-aging industrial society, a trend that is causing huge economic and political problems as a dwindling number of younger people must support a growing army of the old.
Slick ad campaigns and calls from people with soothing voices are part of the effort to get people to sign up. Handsome advisors list the small pleasures candidates could afford with the money. “You’ll be able to go to the restaurant,” says one. “When I was young, a long life was considered to be a good thing, people had respect for older people. That’s no longer the case,” the 45-year-old director added.“Plan 75”, Hayakawa’s first full-length feature film, is full of slow sequences with minimal camera movement.
She said she interviewed older people as part of her research for the movie and discovered that many found merit with the idea of buying financial security with their willingness to end their life.
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