Japanese director Chie Hayakawa returns to Cannes with 'Renoir,' about a young girl facing family tragedy during Japan's ...

The Japanese director shares her thoughts about art, life and death, and describes how her movie parallels her own life journey ...

In her second film, Japanese director Chie Hayakawa ('Plan 75') tells a deeply personal story about a crucial summer in the life of an observant 11-year-old. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic ...

Plan 75' director Chie Hayakawa delivers an impressionistic story of an inquisitive girl's summer of life, death and amateur parapsychology.

For Hayakawa, Renoir is both a deeply personal film and a deliberate departure. “I wanted to take a different approach this time,” she explains. “Rather than building the film around a clear ...

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the ...

In the midst of a society that, as we are told by one of the characters in Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir, is characterized by diligence and modesty, young Fuki Okita (Yui Suzuki) is living on instinct ...

Japanese filmmaker Chie Hayakawa made a quiet but unforgettable entrance onto the world stage with her 2022 feature debut Plan 75, a haunting dystopian vision of state-sponsored euthanasia for the ...

You could call Chie Hayakawa’s understated second feature a coming-of-age film, except that its lead character doesn’t really learn anything ...

In the midst of a society that, as we are told by one of the characters in Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir, is characterized by diligence and modesty, young Fuki Okita (Yui Suzuki) is living on instinct and ...