A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold.
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Hirokazu Koreeda (original story), Hirokazu Koreeda (screenplay)
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Hirokazu Kore-ed’s (his masterpiece AFTER LIFE and last year’s THE THIRD MURDER) latest film, SHOPLIFTERS won him the Palme D’Or at Cannes this year and is a real gem of a movie. It tells the story of a poor family barely etching out a decent living in the outskirts of Tokyo. The family is comprised of a couple, a grandmother and children. The beauty of the movie is the twist in the story, that if revealed would definitely destroy the movie’s purpose.
The film’s Japanese title MANBIKI KAZOKU literally translates to ‘shoplifting family’. Indeed so. This is not Kore-da’s first family themed film, after making AFTER THE STORM,
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