Shoplifters is a Japanese drama directed, written and edited by Hirokazu Kore-edawho also wrote the screenplay contemplating what makes a family, and inspired by reports on poverty and shoplifting in Japan. Shoplifters took me to a world in Japan that I wouldn’t have otherwise experienced. I am so grateful to have seen this movie. Shoplifters was a new experience for me coupled with love and tenderness and a cliché, “everything is not always as it seems”.
Opening in Tokyo, Japan, Shoplifters focuses on the Shibata family who lives in poverty and consist of Osamu Shibata (Lily Franky), a day laborer who had to leave his job after severely twisting his ankle; his wife Lin Nobuyo Shibata (Sakura Ando), who works for an industrial laundry service, Aki Shibata (Mayu Matsuoka), who works at a hostess club; a young boy named Shota Shibara (Kairi Jō), and Hatsue /…
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