Chie Hayakawa
Chie Hayakawa (早川千絵, Hayakawa Chie; born August 20, 1976) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter based in Tokyo.
Chie Hayakawa
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- Name
- Chie Hayakawa
- Occupation
- Film director, screenwriter
- Full name
- 早川千絵.
- Born
- 1976. · Tokyo.
- Nationality
- Japan.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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Chie Hayakawa (早川千絵, Hayakawa Chie; born August 20, 1976) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter based in Tokyo.
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Chie Hayakawa (born 1976) is a film director and screenwriter, of Japanese nationality. The film director was born 早川千絵 in Tokyo. Languages used include Japanese.
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• Name — Chie Hayakawa • Citizenship — Japanese • Occupation — Film director, screenwriter • Years Active — 2014–present
Personal life and education
Personal life and education
Hayakawa graduated from the New York School of Visual Arts in 2001. Her various early short films were screened at the school's gallery and film festivals. She gave birth to two children in New York and returned to Tokyo in 2008.
Career
Career
In Tokyo, she enrolled in a one-year film program at a night school whilst working. Her thesis film, Niagara, was selected for the screening at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and won the Grand Prix at the Pia Film Festival. In 2022, her first feature film Plan 75 received Caméra d'Or — Mention Spéciale (also called Caméra d'Or — Mention d'honneur) at the Cannes Film Festival. In April 2025, her feature film Renoir was officially selected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, competing for the Palme d'Or.
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Notes • 2014 — Niagara — Short • 2018 — Ten Years Japan — First segment — short film Plan 75 • 2022 — Plan 75 — Caméra d'Or — Special Mention • 2025 — Renoir
Chie Hayakawa at 2025 Cannes Photocall
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- 1.Chie Hayakawa. D'A Film Festival.
- 2.Debruge, Peter. 'Plan 75' Review: Japan's Thought-Provoking Oscar Submission Chides Society for Disrespecting Its Seniors. Variety. 2022-10-14.
- 3.Chie HAYAKAWA. Festival de Cannes.
- 4.Rich, Motoko. A Filmmaker Imagines a Japan Where the Elderly Volunteer to Die. The New York Times. 2022-06-17. 0362-4331.
- 5.Handler, Rachel. Chie Hayakawa's Plan 75 Quietly Devastates Cannes. Vulture. 2022-05-20.
- 6.Schenker, Jack. A Conversation with Chie Hayakawa (PLAN 75). Hammer to Nail. 2023-05-02.
- 7.Gray, Jason. Naked Of Defenses picks up top prize at Japan's Pia fest. Screen. 2008-07-25.
- 8.Keslassy, Elsa. Cannes Film Festival Unveils 2025 Lineup. Variety. 10 April 2025.
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