Film
Shoplifters
- Director
- Hirokazu Kore-eda
- Certificate
- TBA
- Running Time
- 121 mins
Often described as the natural heir to Yasujirō Ozu, Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s oeuvre includes such gentle, perceptive, much acclaimed and emotionally rewarding domestic dramas as Like Father, Like Son and Our Little Sister. The Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Shoplifters continues very much in this vein, being the superbly crafted, socially conscious and deeply humane portrait of a Tokyo underclass family who scrape by on a maegre income, frequently resorting to shoplifting just to survive.
On one of their five-finger discount outings, the clan encounter an abused homeless girl and decide to informally adopt her. “At once charming and heart-wrenching, this exquisitely performed film will steal the hearts of both art-house and mainstream audiences,” enthused Variety‘s suitably enraptured reviewer.
It’s back on screen in the Watershed’s comprehensive Of Flesh & Blood: The Cinema of Hirokazu Kore-eda season.
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