Following the announcement that it will be debuting in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year, a full trailer has been released for Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda’s SHOPLIFTERS.
Here we get more of a sense of the bigger story in the film. Featuring regular Koreeda collaborator Lily Franky 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.
Hirokazu Koreeda is one of the most acclaimed filmmakers working today. Film 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. It took a very different approach to his previous work by intensely focusing on the defence of a criminal who may not be telling the whole truth about the crime he is committed on.
Following its Cannes debut, it is due to open in Japan on 8 June 2018. If nothing else, it’s a chance to see Franky in one of six films he’s appearing in this year, alongside Blank 13 and Takashi Miike’s Laplace’s Witch.
