Shoplifters
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives through shoplifting and odd jobs. When Osamu and his son take in a neglected young girl, their already fragile existence begins to unravel. As the family grows attached to her, buried secrets surface, forcing them to confront the true meaning of love, belonging, and what makes a family. From TMDB
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60 of 94 · most liked firstHappy #LetterboxdFriday 📽️! A nice range in my #LastFourWatched, but Bride of Frankenstein rules them all. What have you been watching? Shoplifters (2018) The Judge (2014) Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2026) Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching SHOPLIFTERS (2018). Director: Hirokazu Koreeda. Lily Franky, Sakura Ando. When originally viewing this Cannes Palme d'Or winner, it quietly crept up & punched me in the gut. I'm ready this time. #filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →I'm halfway through the #Jdrama Asura (written & directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda who won the Cannes Palme d' Or for the film Shoplifters) and it's legit great but so hard to watch at times. It's set in 1979 and it's about four sisters who are all dealing with infidelity... #kdrama #asiandrama
unlabelledView post →best of the century, no order HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (2018) FIRST REFORMED (2017) MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) CASTRATION MOVIE ANTHOLOGY I: TRAPS (2024) THE MASTER (2012) CENTER JENNY (2013) THE FLORIDA PROJECT (2017) SHOPLIFTERS (2018) THE LOBSTER (2015) THE PIANO TEACHER (2001)
unlabelledView post →Have you ever seen a movie that sticks to you completely? You sit in silence at the end of the movies because you can’t process it emotionally? That’s how I felt today after watching Shoplifters. What a film.
unlabelledView post →Having watched GODZILLA MINUS ONE and rewatched SHOPLIFTERS and MONSTER last weekend at the Japanese Film Fest, I think Sakura Andô might be our subtlest interpreter of ambivalent, besieged, perseverant relationships to motherhood. She's painting with colors no one else has. 📽️
unlabelledView post →The best films and shows usually challenge worldviews by poking holes in them, only to find ways for the audience themselves to then reinforce their worldview through basic human empathy. Kore’eda’s “SHOPLIFTERS” is an absolute masterpiece of an example of this. A magicians trick of a film
unlabelledView post →Isobel's Top 10 Films of the 21st Century An Elephant Sitting Still The Turin Horse Goodbye Dragon Inn Certain Women Shoplifters Moonlight It Must Be Heaven La Chimera Cemetery of Splendor Castration Movie Bonus: DJ Q.bert's Wave Twisters
unlabelledView post →I was delighted to talk to 5-time Japanese Academy Award winner Sakura Ando last week, star of 100 YEN LOVE, SHOPLIFTERS, and GODZILLA MINUS ONE, who was in town for a 4-film retrospective of her work, as part of the 49th Hong Kong International Film Festival. www.scmp.com/lifestyle/en...
unlabelledView post →Feeling very smug that I've refused to stream GODZILLA MINUS ONE, now that my patience has paid off and I can see it on the big screen in Mumbai! By far the best lineup yet for the mini Japanese Film Festivals happening the last few years, including SHOPLIFTERS, MONSTER, & AKIRA. #desiwatch 📽️
unlabelledView post →2010s, one Japanese film per year 10 You Are Umasou (Heart and Yummie) 11 From Up on Poppy Hill 12 One Piece Film Z 13 The Wind Rises 14 Wood Job! 15 I Am A Monk 16 Shin Godzilla 17 Night is Short, Walk on Girl 18 Shoplifters 19 Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
unlabelledView post →messaging my mom like “my gf and i watched the movie Shoplifters this week and now i really want to eat croquettes” and her immediately agreeing to make me “a mountain of them” when i next go down to wellington 🥰
unlabelledView post →Film 6 of #40before40 Shoplifters (万引き家族)0
unlabelledView post →fourth week of #letterboxdfriday for may and it accidentally became a hirokazu kore-eda week (minus one film being house) with one rewatch for my #lastfourwatched because i love suffering!! Shoplifters (2018) Nobody Knows (2004) House (1977) Monster (2023)
unlabelledView post →Rewatched Shoplifters (2018) and god, that movie used to make me teary, but I was straight up bawling my eyes out at the end of it this time around What a movie
unlabelledView post →Second film tonight on Kanopy & Netflix, Shoplifters. #filmsky #letterboxd #LastFourWatched boxd.it/ifY6
unlabelledView post →Vidim da u subotu HRT3 sprema večer s Hirokazuom Kore-edom. Opet Shoplifters, koji je inače super film, ali ovo mora bit bar peti put da to prikazuju? No ajd, nakon toga njegov zadnji, Monster, koji je isto odličan. Šteta što nije upao nijedan od starijih, jer je komotno mogla bit večer remek-djela.
unlabelledView post →My ten favorite movies of the 21st century? Uh... Mulholland Drive Adaptation City of God Millennium Actress The Descent Synecdoche, New York Mad Max: Fury Road The Other Side of the Wind Shoplifters The Cat Returns Yeah, I could put a different Ghibli movie there but no, it's THE CAT RETURNS.
unlabelledView post →Choose twenty films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for twenty days and in no particular order. No explanations. No reviews. #movies #films #FilmSky #FilmChallenge #Shoplifters 16/20: Shoplifters/Manbiki kazoku (Kore-Eda Hirokazu, 2018)
unlabelledView post →Been on a bit of an Asian cinema kick lately: Rashomon (1950) The Thieves (2012) Godzilla Minus One (2023) Infernal Affairs (2002) Shoplifters (2018) Open to suggestions for more. #FilmSky 📽️
unlabelledView post →"Shoplifters" is the movie people think "Parasite" is
unlabelledView post →I loved Kore-eda's Shoplifters so much it made me want to watch every Japanese film and understand Japanese both of which I've been working on ever since
unlabelledView post →Choose one film from each of your 100 favorite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 88/100 Film: Shoplifters (2018) Director: Hirokazu Koreeda #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge
unlabelledView post →Choose one film from each of your 30 favourite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still 13/30 Hirokazu Koreeda. Shoplifters.
unlabelledView post →Full house for our first film of the year the wonderful Japanese winner of a Palme d’Or - Shoplifters
unlabelledView post →Just saw the amazing SHOPLIFTERS at the Japan Foundation, certainly one of the best films of the 2000s.
unlabelledView post →4) Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Koreeda Movies about found family and characters who've made some bad decisions, but who are ultimately well intentioned resonate with me pretty hard. It's rare that I enjoy a movie that's mostly drama the way this is, but always love it when it happens. #filmsky
unlabelledView post →boxd.it/7LmgiX Just watched Shoplifters. Amazing film, the story was an emotional gut punch elevated by great acting. The cinematography was intentional and excellent. Great blocking.
unlabelledView post →Downgrade a movie: Indiana Jones and the Shoplifters of the Misplaced Travel Tote
unlabelledView post →i mean yes, i recommend Shoplifters as a moving film about found families and thoughtful social commentary on the way japanese society treats those living at the fringes. but also i recommend it because the food looks delicious
unlabelledView post →Happy 64th Birthday to talented & award-winning Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor Hirokazu Kore-eda, acclaimed for his deeply human films including MABOROSI, AFTER LIFE, NOBODY KNOWS, STILL WALKING, I WISH, LIKE FATHER LIKE SON, AFTER THE STORM, SHOPLIFTERS, BROKER, and more
unlabelledView post →Shoplifters Of The World This #movie is brilliant. If you didn't listen to The Smiths before... you do now!
unlabelledView post →deadline.com/2026/02/eddi... Eddie Redmayne And ‘Shoplifters’ Director Hirokazu Kore-eda Team On New Film At Searchlight
unlabelledView post →I had no feelings about the "Look Back" live action film, but then I saw Koreeda's name attached to it and I went, "SHOPLIFTERS DIRECTOR???"
unlabelledView post →Shoplifters (2018) and its not close, don't think I've seen a more bilalcore movie to date. honorable mention Dust in the Wind (1986)
unlabelledView post →My favorite director. His movie "Shoplifters" is the movie "Parasite" thinks it is.
unlabelledView post →The reason this drama isn’t for everyone, aside from its slow pace, is that the realism of the story undercuts any fairytale ending. The humanism & warmth of the #Shoplifters family is offset by the imperfect interests pulling at the character’s lives. Yet it is an understatedly beautiful film.
unlabelledView post →Shoplifters (2018) Director: Hirokazu Koreeda I was very surprised by Shoplifters. I spent years avoiding spoilers but this was not what I was expecting. Surprises throughout and very good.
unlabelledView post →SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD (2021) is a cute film, it’s charming - but watching it brings a burning hot sense of embarrassment as it brings to mind my own insufferable teenage years
unlabelledView post →Challenge: Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters. 7/20 #Shoplifters #万引き家族 #asianfilm #filmsky #filmchallenge #20films #films 📽🎥🎬
unlabelledView post →I know there aren't any polls on here but I think I want to watch a Hirokazu Kore-eda movie tonight. I've seen and adore both Shoplifters and Monster. Any recommendations if I have access to them all?
unlabelledView post →For those who prefer a good streaming movie to a NYE night out, here are three pre-pandemic gems: The Salesman (2016) A Separation (2011) Shoplifters (2018) All excellent & available on Prime for free or a few bucks.
unlabelledView post →There's a FREE screening of Kore-eda's Shoplifters coming up at the Japan Foundation Toronto, deets in link tr.jpf.go.jp/event/shopli... 🎥 #kore-eda #filmsky
unlabelledView post →MONSTER: Hirokazu Kore-eda's new film (which came out earlier this year in the UK) is a multifaceted drama told from multiple perspectives. It's his best film since Shoplifters. My review for Cinematic Sense... cinematicsense.home.blog/2024/11/15/f...
unlabelledView post →Film wise I love everything Hamaguchi has done. Kore-eda my favourites are After Life, Maborosi and Shoplifters. Kurosawa - Ran & Kagemusha. I also love the 60’s films Oninaba and Kwaidan. Not sure what any of these titles are in Japan. All the best.
unlabelledView post →Saw 'Perfect Days' by Wim Wenders, lovely film, Kōji Yakusho is amazing. Kind of interesting to think about it alonside Kore-eda's 'Shoplifters', a possibly inferior film but one that takes its politics seriously; Wenders crafts a really carefully depoliticised experience of (self-)marginalisation.
unlabelledView post →I watched two great films yesterday. Both Japanese. One was called "The Shoplifters".... a 2018 award winning film. The other was a 1953 movie called "Tokyo Story". Highly recommend both of them.
unlabelledView post →I believe that I might like Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Shoplifters’ more than that other ‘disfunctional family’ film ‘Parasites’ They have a few similarities, but the ‘Tokyo Godfathers’ aspect of ‘Shoplifters’ and the cute as a button rescued kid is enjoyable. It does end on a sad note, though Recommended
unlabelledView post →It’s a great time! I always go back to that game Hmm… both Shoplifters and Broker are warm, found family films I adore. Mikey and Nicky is fantastic. And there’s always my favorite movie of all time A Bronx Tale 🥹
unlabelledView post →Day 60 of 365 of the Film Challenge: Shoplifters
unlabelledView post →9. Shoplifters (re-watch) Can yall tell I'm in my cinephile era. Working on the next vn all day and watching movies all night. This hurt my heart but honestly this movie is lovely. Many of the shots are so nicely composed and the camera doesn't move so much, so it gives it a beautiful quality :)
unlabelledView post →If ever there was a movie made that defines the adage that anyone can have a child, but it takes a really mother/father to be a parent, it’s Hirokazu Koreeda’s dark but touching Shoplifters. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →First film of 2026 is Shoplifters (2018) by Kore-eda. Fantastic found family drama. boxd.it/cmFED9
unlabelledView post →124. Shoplifters [Movie, 2018] 8/10 - Really good, made me smile a lot and made me sad.
unlabelledView post →I guess one question is whether practicing any type of activity eventually causes you to value that activity, for its own sake. E.g. shoplifting (I'm thinking of the Japanese film, "Shoplifters").
unlabelledView post →Shoplifters is an absolute gem of a film
unlabelledView post →"Shoplifters" is the movie people think "Parasite" is, and "White Lotus" is the movie "Parasite" actually is.
unlabelledView post →So far the best show I’ve seen on TV this year has been Netflix’s Asura. 🎥 It’s a wonderful period drama directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda who I think qualifies as an auteur. I think most western movie fans will know him for Shoplifters. Waiting to see if Andor takes the spot later. 📽️ #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Kore-eda Hirokazu's Shoplifters on #Film4 tonight at the hour most deserving for a Palme D'or winning film: 01:40. politic1983.home.blog/2020/11/25/s...
unlabelledView post →People who subscribe to our newsletter know we always include books/film/music in it. This week's FILM recommendation is 2018's Shoplifters. It's an exceptional fim about chosen family under precarity and solidarity against the (insufficient) status quo. You might catch feelings!
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