First teaser trailer for Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Shoplifters’

SHOPLIFTERS is the latest film from the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda, and Gaga Corporation have just dropped the poster and teaser trailer for the film. It is due out in Japan in June 2018, but you can check out the first footage in trailer below.

Featuring an amazing cast that sees regular collaborator Lily Franky appearing alongside Sakura Ando and Mayu Matsuoka, it follows another father/son relationship where shoplifting is part of their bonding experience. The dynamic changes when Franky’s character finds a little girl freezing, and decides to bring her home to his family. As with many of Koreeda’s films, there’s a multi-generational household, which is as good an excuse as any to feature the incomparable Kirin Kiki. 

Hirokazu Koreeda is unquestionably one of the quintessential filmmakers working in Japan today, and has earned acclaim around the world for films such as Nobody Knows, Still Walking, I Wish, Like Father, Like Son, and After the Storm. His most recent film, The Third Murder, was released late last year in Japan and at several large festivals around the world.

Fingers crossed for a Japanese Film Festival debut!