Directing
Chie Hayakawa
Born
1976-08-20 (50)
Place of birth
Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known for
Directing
Credits
11 titles
Chie Hayakawa (Japanese: 早川千絵; born 20 August, 1976; Tokyo) is a Japanese filmmaker. Born in Tokyo and studied photography at School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her short films “Identify This Girl” (2000) and “Photography of Zero” (2003) were included in the exhibition at SVA Gallery in NY. “What you are holding is not an apple” (2000) and “Vajra/Vajra” (2001) were selected in International Festival of Cinema and Technology for two consecutive years and shown in Los Angels, London, and Toronto.
Known for
6.6In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Plan 75
2022
6.1In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.
Renoir
2025
3.5Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.
Ten Years Japan
2018
No synopsis available yet.
May in the Winter
2016
Experimental short film.
Vajra/Vajra
2001
An 18-year-old girl, YAMAME (Saki Itami), who grew up in an orphanage, came to know that her grandparents are alive. Her grandpa killed her parents 15 years ago and has been on death row.
Niagara
2013
Behind the camera
6.6In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Plan 75
2022
6.6In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.
Plan 75
2022
6.1In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.
Renoir
2025
6.1In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.
Renoir
2025
3.5Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.
Ten Years Japan
2018
3.5Five short stories from five different directors set ten years in Japan's future.
Ten Years Japan
2018
No synopsis available yet.
May in the Winter
2016
No synopsis available yet.
May in the Winter
2016
Experimental short film.
Vajra/Vajra
2001
An 18-year-old girl, YAMAME (Saki Itami), who grew up in an orphanage, came to know that her grandparents are alive. Her grandpa killed her parents 15 years ago and has been on death row.
Niagara
2013
An 18-year-old girl, YAMAME (Saki Itami), who grew up in an orphanage, came to know that her grandparents are alive. Her grandpa killed her parents 15 years ago and has been on death row.
Niagara
2013