Event
Film Screening: Plan 75
3340 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA
Plan 75 is a 2022 drama film directed by Chie Hayakawa, starring Chieko Baisho, Hayato Isomura and Stefanie Arianne. In a dystopian alternate reality, the Japanese government creates a program called "Plan 75" that offers free euthanasia to all Japanese citizens 75 and older in order to deal with its rapidly aging population.
Featured Speaker
Professor Jennifer Coates is a Professor of Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield. Her books include Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964 (Hong Kong University Press, 2016) and Film Viewing in Postwar Japan, 1945-1968: An Ethnographic Study (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), as well as co-edited volumes Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen (Routledge, 2021 with Ben-Ari, E.) and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture (Routledge, 2019 with Fraser, L., and Pendleton, M.).
This event is presented by the Cinema & Media Studies Department at Penn.