Shoplifters
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Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda’s Palme d’Or–winning film is a warm and moving depiction of a makeshift family living on the outskirts of society.
After sporadically employed father Osamu takes his young son out shoplifting one evening, they stumble across an abandoned five-year old girl on their trip back home. Taking her into their ramshackle house — shared also by Osamu’s wife Nobuyo, her younger sister Aki, and frail grandmother Hatsue — the family adopts the young girl and immerses her into their life of cheerful petty thievery. Koreeda has crafted a sumptuously lived-in world for these characters. Filled with both good humour and touching melancholy, Shoplifters is an irresistible tale about the meaning of family.
Details
Year: | 2018 |
Classification: | Ages 15+ |
Country: | Japan |
Language: | Japanese, with English subtitles |
Director: | Hirokazu Koreeda |
Producer: | Kaoru Matsuzaki, Akihiko Yose, Hijiri Taguchi |
Cast: | Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka, Kairi Jō |
Script: | Hirokazu Koreeda |
Program strand: | Features |
Rights: | Rialto Australia |