Overview
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 face choices of life and death.
Director and cast
- Chieko Baisho as Michi Tsunotani
- Hayato Isomura as Hiromu Okabe
- Stefanie Arianne as Maria
- Yuumi Kawai as Haruko Narimiya
- Taka Takao as Yukio Okabe
- Hisako Ôkata as Ineko Maki
- Kazuyoshi Kushida as Kamatari Fujimaru
- Yoko Yano as Hisae Hayashida
- Mari Nakayama as Sanae Mimura
- Sheryl Ichikawa as Maria's Friend
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