On their way back from a shoplifting excursion, Osamu and his son Shota discover a little girl shivering in the cold. They take her home for the night. Osamu's wife is reluctant to take her in, but then she sees the bruises on the little girl and assumes that she is in peril. Shoplifting has become a way of supplementing the meager income of this marginalized family, and they seem quite happy until an incident exposes their secret. Returning to the sociopolitical spirit of his earlier masterpiece Nobody Knows, Hirokazu Kore-eda gives us far more than a heist story. Winning the top prize in Cannes, the Palme D'Or, Shoplifters is a poignant, insightful, and haunting story that explores love and social conventions without questioning what is the right or wrong way to define a family.

In competition for the FIPRESCI Award.

In conversation with Writer/Director Hirokazu Kore-eda