Original Title: Manbiki kazoku
Year: 2018
Genre:
Drama, Crime
Category: Existential Crisis
IMDB Rating: 8 (DINO Rating: 7,9)
Country: Japan
Language: English
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda
Composer: Haruomi Hosono
Producer: Megumi Banse, Takashi Ishihara, Hirokazu Koreeda, Yu Kumagai, Kaoru Matsuzaki, Yasuhito Nakae, Satomi Odake, Megumi Osawa, Hijiri Taguchi, Tom Yoda, Akihiko Yose
Actors: Lily Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki, Mayu Matsuoka, Jyo Kairi, Miyu Sasaki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Yûki Yamada, Moemi Katayama, Daisuke Kuroda, Kazuaki Shimizu, Izumi Matsuoka, Katsuya Maiguma, Hajime Inoue, Aju Makita, Akira Emoto, Haruna Hori, Wako Andô, Momoko Miyauchi, Mami Hashimoto, Shinichirô Matsuura, Madoka Tomosaki, Nobu Morimoto, Tomomitsu Adachi, Shinsuke Kasai, Mana Mikami, Hideki Nakano, You Hioki, Kazan Watanabe, Takeo Gozu, Katsunobu Ito, Satomi Hirayama, Yoshimi Tachi, Naoto Ogata, Yôko Moriguchi, Kengo Kôra, Chizuru Ikewaki, Nana Mizoguchi
Description: A Japanese couple stuck with part-time jobs and hence inadequate incomes avail themselves of the fruits of shoplifting to make ends meet. They are not alone in this behaviour. The younger and the older of the household are in on the act. The unusual routine is about to change from care-free and matter-of-fact to something more dramatic, however, as the couple open their doors to a beleaguered young girl. The reasons for the family's habit and their motivations come under the microscope.
Comments: A family of small-time crooks take in a child they find outside in the cold. ------- A Japanese couple stuck with part-time jobs and hence inadequate incomes avail themselves of the fruits of shoplifting to make ends meet. They are not alone in this behaviour. The younger and the older of the household are in on the act. The unusual routine is about to change from care-free and matter-of-fact to something more dramatic, however, as the couple open their doors to a beleaguered young girl. The reasons for the family's habit and their motivations come under the microscope. ------- After shoplifting from a store, Osamu and his son run into a little homeless girl shivering with cold. At first glance, Osamu's wife is not quite keen to take her under her wing, but she eventually feels sorry for her. Despite eking a living from shoplifting, the family is happy until an unforeseen incident unveils a secret that puts their bond to the test. ------- 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.
Duration: 121 minutes (at 23.98 frames per second)
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Filesize: 7876 MB
Video: AVC - resolution: 1920x1040
Audio:
Subtitles: English