Plan 75

• Chieko Baisho as Mishi Kakutani
• Hayato Isomura as Himoru Okabe
• Stefanie Arianne as Maria
• Yuumi Kawai as Yoko Narimiya
• Takao Taka as Yukio Okabe
• Ohkata Hisako as Ineko
• Kazuyoshi Kushida as Fujimaru
• Yusaku Mori
• Yoko Yano as Mishi's co-worker
• Mari Nakayama as Mishi's co-worker

The film premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2022.[1] The film also won the Special Mention award in the Caméra d'Or competition.[2] The film was released in Japan on 17 June.[3] The film was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards.[4]

Film distributor TBA Studios had acquired the theatrical distribution rights film in the Philippines, one of the co-producing countries for this film.[5]

Diego Semerene of Slant Magazine rated the film 3 stars out of 4 and wrote that "With stinging precision, Hayakawa Chie reveals a culture that seems almost mobilized to destroy its own soul."[6] Stephanie Bunbury of Deadline Hollywood wrote that "Stylistically, it looks a bit like a training film. What this means – the brilliance of this film – is that Hayakawa is able to make the idea of wiping out a generation seem drably normal within about quarter of an hour, something to ponder in itself."[7] Tim Grierson of Screen Daily wrote that the film "may seem like it’s about ageing, but more accurately it is about the importance of community".[8]

James Hadfield of The Japan Times rated the film 4 stars out of 5 and wrote that "as the film progresses, a sense of numb resignation sets in. But Hayakawa refuses to end on a resolutely downbeat note — and in its haunting closing shot, “Plan 75” achieves something close to an epiphany."[9] Clarence Tsui of the South China Morning Post also rated the film 4 stars out of 5 and wrote that "throughout the film, Hayakawa implies rather than explains, and this tactfulness instils Plan 75 with the power one expects of a bitter denunciation for our troubling times."[10] Jaden S. Thompson of The Harvard Crimson also rated the film 4 stars out of 5, writing that it "upholds the inherent value of human life with its introspective writing and performances."[11]

• List of submissions to the 95th Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film
• List of Japanese submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

• Plan 75 at IMDb
• Plan 75 at Rotten Tomatoes
• When 75 is time do die (article with a brief plot summary in the Guardian)