Drama

Shoplifters

万引き家族

Directed by: Hirokazu Kore-eda
2018 / 120 minutes / M - Sexual references and nudity

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Piecing together family in the most unexpected ways

From revered director Hirokazu Kore-eda (Still Walking, 2008; Nobody Knows, 2004), Shoplifters is a brilliantly humanistic masterpiece that intricately – and on occasion, boldly – explores what it means to be a family. The film focuses on a ragtag family of five who have slipped through the cracks of society, using shoplifting and other petty crime as a means to survive. Hatsue, the elderly matriarch of the cramped, decrepit home is played by the late legendary Kirin Kiki. Also sharing the dwelling are laundress Nobuyo (Sakura Andō) and her sometimes-employed husband Osamu (Lily Franky), teenage Aki (Mayu Matsuoka), who works in a soft-core peep show and the youngest member Shota (Jyo Kairi), who brings home the bare essentials with his dad Osamu from their regular shoplifting sprees. After one such venture, Osamu and Shota come across a little girl named Yuri (Miyu Sasaki), left outside on a cold winter night. Despite their own hardships, the impoverished family take her in with the hope to provide the much-needed shelter and care she appears to have been deprived. The family begin to live a happy, humble life together until an unforeseen incident unravels hard truths and their fragile existence is thrust into the spotlight, uprooting the bonds that hold them together.

[More Satellite cities to come.]

2018 First Japanese film to win the Palme d'Or since The Eel in 1997
2019 8 Japan Academy Prizes including Picture of the Year, Best Leading Actress and Best Supporting Actress
2019 César Award for Best Foreign Film
2019 Asian Film Award - Best Film

Saturday 21st November
10:00
Concluded

BCC Cinemas Central, Townsville

Sunday 22nd November
13:00
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BCC Cinemas Central, Townsville

Saturday 28th November
15:00
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Event Cinemas Kotara, Newcastle

Sunday 6th December
14:40
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Tickets are available from the JFF Info Desk in the cinema foyer 30 minutes prior to screening.

Event Cinemas Robina, Gold Coast

Sunday 6th December
17:00
Concluded

Jetty Memorial Theatre, Coffs Harbour

Wednesday 9th December
19:00
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Palace Nova Eastend, Adelaide

Saturday 26th September
18:30
Concluded

Alice Springs Cinema, Alice Springs

Friday 4th September
19:30
Concluded

Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre, Bunbury

Sunday 15th November
16:00
Concluded

BCC Cinemas Cairns Earlville, Cairns

Friday 19th February
18:00
Concluded

BCC Cinemas Casuarina, Darwin

Monday 22nd February
18:30
Concluded

Village Cinemas Glenorchy, Hobart

Screens in: Townsville, Newcastle, Gold, Coast, Coffs, Harbour, Adelaide, Alice, Springs, Bunbury, Cairns, Darwin and Hobart

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

Producer: Kaoru Matsuzaki, Akihiko Yose and Hijiri Taguchi

Cast: Lily Franky, Sakura Ando, Mayu Matsuoka, Kirin Kiki, Jyo Kairi and Miyu Sasaki

Genre: Drama

Language(s): In Japanese with English subtitles.