The irony is not lost to the audience: a nation that has a record number of old men and women is now proposing through cinema a systematic process of doing away with them. Know more:
an acute summing up of what happens to a graying society that is Japan. But what could have been an incipient cold depiction of dystopia becomes linked verses of compassion for a humanity that persists.
Later, the two women are seen with the other women. They look old; they ARE old. But they are tough workers, an unapologetically active part of the working class. They disperse later and the camera tracks one of them. She goes home to her small place. Inside, life vibrant goes on. She cuts her nails and, after gathering them on a piece of paper, drops them into her plants—dead tissues into living organisms. Nothing goes to waste in this society.
If Plan 75 had simply been that—the discard of humanity—then it would have been a dry-as-dust thesis of modernization. The plan, however, comes from a society of feeling people. In a comic twist of the Japanese discussing resorts and vacations, the old women huddle and talk of the benefits of knowing when to die. The final days are spent with good food in a lovely place. But Hayakawa knows dying is as complex as living even if one is given a plan.
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