Writer-director Chie Hayakawa’s movie centres on the life of a 78-year-old woman, who, despite some initial scepticism decides to join a Japanese government-assisted euthanasia program.
Hayakawa Chie’s dystopian debut about an opt-in euthanasia scheme for the elderly is less an argument about the merits and ills of the practice than a searing interrogation of how capitalism has made it too expensive to grow old with dignity.