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Shoplifters
aka: Manbiki kazoku
Japan 2018, 121 minutes
Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
English
Rating: [M] Sexual references.
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Drama
Feat. Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka
“A work of such emotional delicacy and formal modesty that you're barely prepared when the full force of what it's doing suddenly knocks you sideways.”
Aroview: Charming, funny and heartbreaking all at once, this drama from the Japanese master of humanism Kore-eda is set in Tokyo and follows a group of poverty-stricken outcasts who shoplift to make ends meet. A compassionate, resonant portrayal of family and survival.
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(Very Good). Showing 1-2 of 2 member reviews.
4 stars (Very Good) Sakura Andô and young Miyu Sasaki give eye catching performances in this screenplay about Family. I thought the closing scenes, after the arrest, were a bit anti-climatic but the final scene is a Killer. ~Tubbs
3 stars (Good Enough) Not a portrayal of family, but an expose of living on the fringe. What's agonizing about ours is shoplifting is not of necessities, but luxuries that we bar from the dreams of the marginalised, unlike initiatives & ethics of this finely-played ensemble. ~Sandy
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