Shoplifters (2018)

• Year: 2018
• Released: 23 Nov 2018
• Country: Japan
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 51 wins & 100 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8075192/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/shoplifters
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/shoplifters
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 720p
• Language: Japanese
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 121 min
• Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda
• Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
• Cast: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki
• Keywords: family relationships, secret, orphan, tokyo, japan, poverty,

	7.9/10
	93/100
	99% – Critics
	91% – Audience

Shoplifters Storyline

Couple Osamu and Nobuyo, their adolescent “son” Shota, and Nobuyo’s “sister” and “mother”, Aki and Hatsue, live together in Hatsue’s small and isolated house in Tokyo. Although Osamu and Nobuyo have legitimate blue collar jobs, and Aki works as an exotic dancer of sorts in a men’s club, they largely exist on Hatsue’s deceased husband’s pension and through shoplifting whatever they may need, in addition to Nobuyo stealing from her employer. Osamu’s outward belief is that if something is in a store and no one has yet bought it, it doesn’t actually belong to anyone and thus shoplifting is not stealing from anyone. Osamu and Shota do the bulk of the shoplifting of their day-to-day goods, their shoplifting M.O. which they have perfected to pat routine. On their way home after a shoplifting run, they spot a five year old girl who they have routinely seen huddled outside what they assume is her house, she as usual looking scared and malnourished. This day, they decide to take her home with them, in the process over time learning that she is Juri, an abused child. Ultimately, Osamu and Nobuyo decide to keep her, eventually changing her name to Lin and cutting her hair to make her look different after they discover two months after the fact that her abusive parents are finally looking for her. As Shota ends up being Lin’s most frequent companion in he not attending school – Osamu and Nobuyo who have told him that only children who don’t have the luxury of being taught at home need to go to school – he involves her in his routine shoplifting, the only life he knows. This new situation of Lin in their lives has the potential to bring this makeshift family come tumbling down around them as each person begins to question their past actions. If this figurative house does come crashing down, the alternative may not be better in the options of what is one’s choice versus what is one’s circumstance, the latter quite often biologically-based.

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Shoplifters Movie Reviews

interesting, but not special.

This film provides a glimpse at a side of Japan we don’t usually see on film. Yes, there is (petty) crime in Japan; yes, there are poor people in Japan; and yes, there is a welfare system in Japan. The impression of all is pristine and proper in Japan is dispelled, and we see a more realistic, human side of the culture. I’m not sure if the hype is what spoiled it for me, but I will say there are some very good performances here, but the story is nothing exceptional except for the fact that it’s taking place in Japan.

What the heck is going on 7.9??

This movie took us 5 times to start watching. It is boring. Most of the scenes are dark and it’s hard to see (on 4k uhd) I keeps seeing these post about visually stunning, profound story, someone explain….it’s filmed in a dump, there’s nothing visually stunning. Fellows seem lame and the story is confusing and downright ironic. Hard to know who’s who and what’s going on.

What Is A Family?

This film tells you!

It is a group of people who are sitting around watching a movie that is as illogical and stupid as it is boring and unfulfilled and yet do not hate each other or kill one another.

They simply eject the film and laugh at it.