Suburban Tokyo, 1987. 11-year-old Fuki’s father, Keiji, is battling a terminal illness, and in and out of hospital. Her mother, Utako, is constantly stressed out from caring for Keiji while holding down a full-time job. Left alone with her rich imagination, Fuki becomes fascinated by telepathy and falls ever deeper into her own fantasy world…
Born in Tokyo, she studied photography at School of Visual Arts in New York. Her short film, Niagara (2014), was selected in the Cine?fondation section at Cannes Film Festival 2014 and received awards in numerous international film festivals. Her short film Plan 75 was the opening segment of anthology feature Ten Years Japan (2018) executive produced by Hirokazu Kore-eda. The short was expanded into her feature film debut Plan 75, which was awarded the Camera d'Or Special Mention at Cannes Film Festival 2022. She was also awarded Best Director at Thessaloniki and was awarded and nominated at numerous international film festivals. Renoir marks Japanese writer-director Chie Hayakawas second film, following her feature directorial debut PLAN 75, which was selected in Un Certain Regard and awarded the Came?ra dOr Special Mention at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and screened at over 30 international film festivals. It was also the Japanese entry to the 95th Academy Awards.
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