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Shoplifters

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On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders is united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
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Understated yet ultimately deeply affecting, Shoplifters adds another powerful chapter to director Hirokazu Koreeda's richly humanistic filmography.

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Amy Nicholson FilmWeek (LAist) 09/13/2019
A film that just grows and grows and grows. It seems very quiet, but you are absolutely hooked. Go to Full Review Shubhra Gupta The Indian Express 07/11/2019
4/5
[Shoplifters] is a film edged by despair, and yet is life-affirming. Families may disintegrate, but love keeps us ticking over. Go to Full Review Tom Long Detroit News 01/04/2019
Writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda fills the film with grace notes, humor and fine observations, circling and filling out each character while leaning more on innocence than corruption. Go to Full Review Toba Singer culturevulture.net 02/25/2025
The actors, young or old, transform themselves fully to make what some may regard as their “unexamined lives” worth living, worth recounting, and for observers, worth admiring for their internal fortitude, honesty, and resulting sagacity. Go to Full Review Calum Cooper Source (Scotland) 07/14/2024
4/5
You feel like you’re watching the lives of real people as the story grows and sprouts. It makes the smaller moments of bonding, such as a trip to the beach, all the more charming. Yet it also makes the eventual truths all the more shocking. Go to Full Review Brendan Cassidy InSession Film 07/02/2024
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The best movies teach you something you may not have already considered, and Shoplifters might do just that for many people, especially families. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Joseph C @RT57854882 Jun 4 Can't stop crying, a beautiful story of love and good times, and a deep question into how rigid laws can fail justice while ignoring individual case complexities, how right might be seen as wrong and how this can tear apart what should be united. We are all shoplifters! See more Jim P @RT08384096 Feb 5 There's more to a movie than car chases, shoot-outs and explosions... Try World Cinema: films from other cultures. This one shows Japanese people living "off the grid". Fascinating story. See more Bill P @BillP62 Jan 28 Dark movie which I found to be not that good. Very contrived and not relatable. Not surprising that critics love this odd movie See more Ray I. @dogcheese Aug 26 This movie was super heartfelt. I really dug it See more Stephen C @bob25009 06/07/2025 Success in 2 hours and 1 minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated R for Some Sexual Content and Nudity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Dark D @RT65718715 06/06/2025 Beautiful, moving film with a depressing lesson: don't fall in love with the neighbor kid. See more Read all reviews
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Hirokazu Koreeda

Director

Lily Franky

Shibata Osamu

Sakura Andô

Shibata Nobuyo

Mayu Matsuoka

Shibata Aki

Kirin Kiki

Shibata Hatsue

Jyo Kairi

Shibata Shota
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Synopsis On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders is united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.
Director
Hirokazu Koreeda
Producer
Kaoru Matsuzaki, Hijiri Taguchi
Screenwriter
Hirokazu Koreeda
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
Fuji Television Network Inc., AOI Pro, GAGA
Rating
R (Some Sexual Content and Nudity)
Genre
Crime, Drama, Adventure
Original Language
Japanese
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 23, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 12, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA)
$3.3M
Runtime
2h 1m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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