We are pleased to invite Chie Hayakawa, director and screenwriter of the film “PLAN 75,” which was awarded a special prize in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the 75th Cannes International Film Festival last year and won the Best Screenplay Award at the 46th Japan Academy Awards, and the Best Actress Award for its lead actress, Chieko Baibei. Ms. Hayakawa and the New York panelists will discuss topics related to the film, followed by a networking event.

The film will also have its premiere the following day, April 21, at the IFC (Independent Film Channel) Center in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Please join us for this event on the eve of the film’s release. Event attendees will also receive a special ticket discount as a benefit for participating in the event. (Tickets are on sale now.) The panel discussion will be moderated by Ms. Taiko Otsuka, a partner in the strategy consulting team at IBM Japan for 16 years, currently on secondment at IBM headquarters in the U.S., and a visiting associate professor of brain health care at Kyoto University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Cooperated by Kim Stim / Mar Creation / CUPA

The Film “PLAN 75” depicts a society where people choose to live or die at age 75.
Government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a Filipino laborer face choices of life and death. Directed by Chie Hayakawa, who makes her feature film directorial debut, and starring Chieko Baisho, in her first leading role in a film in nine years. The film represents Japan in the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 95th Academy Awards. The movie will screen at the IFC Center in New York.

＜In-Person Event＞
*Please note that this event will be held in Japanese. Simultaneous interpretation and subtitles will not be provided.

◆Date/Time:
Thursday, April 20, 6:00-8:00pm (ET)
6:00-7:00pm Panel Discussion, Q&A
7:00-8:00pm Networking w/light refreshments & drinks

◆Venue:
Rose Room, 2nd FL of the Nippon Club
（145 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019）

◆Participation fee:
$25 for members / $35 for guests/non-members (includes light refreshments & drinks)

◆Panelists：
Ms. Chie Hayakawa (Director/Screenplay writer)
Ms. Taiko Otsuka (Moderator, Partner, IBM/Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University)
Ms. Kyoko Hirano (Film Historian)
Ms. Ryoko Mochizuki (Board President, Japanese American Social Services, Inc.”JASSI”/President, LORMA Advisory Service)

Chie Hayakawa
(Director/Screenplay writer)

Ms. Hayakawa majored in photography at the School of Visual Arts in NY and produced video works on her own. Her short film “Niagara” was selected for the Cinefondation section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and won the Pia Film Festival Grand Prix, the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival Grand Prix, and the Vladivostok International Film Festival International Critics’ Award. In 2018, she directed and wrote the script for “PLAN75”, one of the omnibus films “Ten Years Japan” directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. She makes her feature film debut in her recast and reimagining of her story from her short film.

Taiko Otsuka
(Moderator, Partner, IBM／Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University)

After working at a Japanese consulting firm and a comprehensive global consulting firm, she joined IBM Japan as a partner of the strategy consulting team. For 16 years, she has supported a wide range of industries, focusing on corporate growth strategies, medium-term management planning and management integration support. She is the leader of sustainability consulting at IBM Japan. From July 2022, he is seconded to IBM Corporation (US headquarters) (current position).

She has several years of experience leading Diversity & Inclusion and training for new graduates, especially in empowering women and young people. She also became interested in her brain health from her grandmother’s experience with dementia, and since April 2022 she has been conducting research on brain health care as a visiting associate professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Management. there is
From August 2021, she is an outside director (currently an executive advisor) of NewsPicks Inc. She is an outside director of a general incorporated association and a director of the women’s lab. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Kyoto University.

Kyoko Hirano（Film Historian）

Former Film Curator of the Japan Society in New York (1986-2004). She is a graduate of Waseda University (BA in Law), the University of Tokyo (MA in Comparative Literatures and Cultures, and Certificate in Journalism), and New York University (PhD in Cinema Studies) on a Fulbright Award. She has taught as a part-time lecturer at New York University, New School University, Temple University Japan Campus, the University of Tokyo, and Meiji Gakuin University, among others. Her publications include “Mr. Smith Goes To Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation 1945-1952” (Smithsonian Institution Press), “The Emperor and Kiss” (Soshisha), “Kurosawa in Manhattan: Is there an English Subtitled Version?” (Seiryu Publishing), “Japanese Film History: 10 Themes” (Kuroshio Publishing), etc. Member of the National Film Archive of Japan Council and the National Art Museum Consortium Steering Committee.

Ryoko Mochizuki
（Board President, Japanese American Social Services, Inc. “JASSI”/President, LORMA Advisory Service）

In 1996 when she joined KPMG LLP, she became a board member of JASSI, a non-profit organization providing welfare services without fee to those in need, often called as “the place of last resort.” She became the Board President of JASSI in 2015. When the New York State on PAUSE Executive Order was put in place due to Covid-19 in March 2020, in order to prevent the isolation of seniors, she led an effort with other volunteers to call 142 senior members without internet access, and if further assistance was needed, an assurance call service was provided. Further, because almost 50% of seniors live alone, she started an online “tea-party” in March 2020, which has been held 138 times since then.

In terms of her career, she was a partner at KPMG LLP, Ernst & Young LLP and at a large international law firm called McDermott, Will & Emery. After her experiences in those firms where she was the head of the Japanese business HR consulting departments, she established the Law Office of Ryoko Mochizuki & Associate (“LORMA”) and continues to provide advisory services. In celebration of the 10th year anniversary of LORMA,　she has established a scholarship program for New York short-term studying abroad. She is an attorney admitted in New York, Certified Public Accountant, Certified Compensation and Benefit Specialist. After she received her B.A. in MIS at the University of Houston, while working, she received her MBA from Baruch College and JD Cum Laude from New York Law School.

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