Shoplifters - family ties
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| German title | Shoplifters - family ties |
| Original title | (万 引 き 家族) , Manbiki kazoku |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| script | Hirokazu Koreeda |
| production | Matsuzaki Kaoru, Yose Akihiko, Taguchi Hijiri |
| music | Haruomi Hosono |
| camera | Kondo Ryuto |
| cut | Hirokazu Koreeda |
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Shoplifters - Familienbande , also Manbiki kazoku (original title: 万 引 き 家族 , international title Shoplifters , German "shoplifters") is a Japanese feature film by Hirokazu Koreeda from 2018 . The film about an unconventional family from the Japanese precarity won the Golden Palm of the film festival in Cannes in 2018 and then numerous other national and international awards.
action
A poor blended family lives in a confined space in the metropolis of Tokyo . Osamu has odd jobs in construction, his wife Nobuyo works in a dry cleaner, Aki earns her first living as an animation girl, and the elderly Hatsue, the owner of the tiny house, is on a widow's pension. The family covers part of their daily needs through shoplifting, which Osamu usually does with the help of Shota, who is around 10 years old. On a particularly cold winter night, they both bring 5-year-old Yuri home with them, who apparently is regularly locked out on the balcony by her parents. Although the little one shows signs of abuse, they want to bring her back after they have eaten. However, a loud argument between her parents prevents her from doing so. Weeks go by without Yuri's parents looking for her. She quickly gets used to her new family and experiences affection and love. Shota involves her in the shoplifting and, at Osamu's request, soon recognizes her as his "sister". When the police finally wanted her, they cut her hair and gave her a new name, Lin.
The family's financial situation continues to worsen. Osamu is temporarily out of work following an accident at work and is not entitled to any wage compensation. Nobuyo learns from her boss that he has to fire her or one of her colleagues and voluntarily resigns when that colleague threatens to report her for child abduction. The night after a harmonious beach excursion for the entire family, Hatsue dies. Osamu and Nobuyo bury her under their home, hide their deaths from the authorities, and continue to receive their pension. When Osamu breaks into a car to steal a bag, Shota keeps his distance. Osamu had justified their joint shoplifting by saying that the goods on display did not belong to anyone. He now wants to keep his "sister" away from the next thieving tour, but when he sees that she has followed him secretly and accesses him again, he attracts attention by stealing a few oranges that are visible to all and flees with them. Cornered by his pursuers, he jumps off a bridge. He ends up in hospital with a broken leg. Osamu and Nobuyo want to visit him, but cannot legitimize themselves as his parents. As a precaution, they try to flee with Aki and Yuri, but are arrested by the police.
In one-on-one interviews, detectives and psychologists now get to the bottom of the family's history. What had already become clear before, is now fully revealed: The members of the small "family" are in reality apparently not related to one another or only to a large extent. Aki learns that Osamu and Nobuyo had killed and buried their ex-husband in self-defense, and that her own parents regularly donated money to Hatsue, her grandfather's first wife. As Osamu has a criminal record, Nobuyo takes on the blamed Yuri and Hatsue on himself. When Osamu and Shota visit her in prison, she tells the boy where the car they once "found" him in came from, so that he can get a chance to find his birth parents. Shota, who has since been placed in an orphanage, spends the night at Osamu. He admits that the family actually wanted to flee without him, and Shota, for his part, that he had let himself be caught on purpose after his last theft. When he was already sitting in the bus after saying goodbye in the morning, he whispered "Papa" for the first time; neither Osamu nor Nobuyo had previously claimed to be called "Papa" and "Mama" by the children, but would have wished they would. Yuri comes back to her birth parents, who treat her as before. From the balcony she looks expectantly into the city.
theme
What is a family? is the unspoken central question that accompanies the viewer through the film. The question that Nobuyo concretely poses to the policewoman interrogating her in one of the last scenes is: “Does giving birth make you a mother?” By then, according to Sven von Reden's judgment, the film had long since given the answer: Not biology and “Blood” is decisive, but affection and love. “Family is not something to be born into. It is something that you create every day through your actions. "
The subject of family, von Reden continued, had previously occupied the director in his work, for example in Like Father, Like Son , which was awarded the jury prize in Cannes in 2013. Its very similar message - not genetics is decisive, but loving relationships - he played through a little schematically, but here, in Shoplifters , condensed it into his “perhaps most complex and daring film to date”.
style
The film could release “great feelings”, it is said in two reviews almost identically; he touches precisely because he consistently avoids sentimentality. Shoplifters always maintain a “certain lightness” and testify to “completely unpretentious virtuosity”; Koreeda proves to be a "master of casual storytelling and the cinematic puzzle game". The film is anything but “exotic” and yet “full of poetry”. The camera follows the characters “calmly” and at a sometimes “leisurely” pace like a “benevolent authorial narrator ”.
reception
Thomas E. Schmidt ( Die Zeit ) praised the jury at Cannes 2018 for their decision to award the film the Palme d'Or. Shoplifters is "gorgeous", "a film that is human in every respect". The “tiny house, which seems to have more residents than square meters, is hidden behind thick bushes, encircled by anonymous concrete blocks”, shows “a somewhat dissolute idyll, enchanting and of course completely futureless”. In the “untidy little world” of this blended family there is neither education nor smartphones, but also no aggression. A “social hussar piece” succeeds here in the smallest of spaces, “happiness that arises from need and despair”.
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It is precisely at this point that Sven von Reden ( Der Spiegel ) links his only objection to the film, although he immediately reduces it a little with the subjunctive (“if there was something to criticize”). Shoplifters is "slightly socially romantic" by creating the illusion that "it is more warm and humorous on the fringes of society than in the middle". Koreeda is more likely to be the successor of the "he admired" British Ken Loach than that of his compatriot Ozu Yasujirō , with whom he is often associated, but whose worldview was darker and whose formal language was stricter.
Shoplifters have had great success at the box office in Koreeda's homeland, so von Speen continued, but also raised some dust. In the social media in particular, it was heavily criticized that the film shows "the shame of Japan" and that it approves criminal acts - and this in fact also with the fact that the director used state subsidies. Koreeda defended himself, among other things, by referring to the European model, where it is normal to criticize the authorities with subsidized films: "I want the Japanese to accept such European values."
Awards (selection)
The Film Festival of Cannes 2018 won Shoplifters the Palme d'Or . This was followed by numerous other nominations, including for the Golden Globe , the BAFTA Award , the César and the Oscar , each for best foreign language film. Shoplifters won the César , while the other three competitions always defeated the Mexican drama Roma . The following is a selection of awards and nominations:
| AACTA Awards 2019 | Nomination for Best Asian Film (Kaoru Matsuzaki, Akihiko Yose and Hijri Taguchi) |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2019 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film ( Hirokazu Koreeda ) |
| Asian Film Award 2019 | Award for Best Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Nomination for Best Director (Hirokazu Koreeda) | |
| Nomination for Best Actress ( Sakura Ando ) | |
| Nomination for Best Supporting Actress ( Mayu Matsuoka ) | |
| Award for the best music ( Haruomi Hosono ) | |
| Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2019 | Award for Best Film (Kaoru Matsuzaki, Akihiko Yose and Hijri Taguchi) |
| Nomination for Best Director (Hirokazu Koreeda) | |
| Nomination for Best Screenplay (Hirokazu Koreeda) | |
| Austin Film Critics Association 2019 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| British Academy Film Awards 2019 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Bodil Award 2019 | Nomination for Best Non-American Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Boston Society of Film Critics 2018 | Award for best foreign language film |
| Award as best actor ensemble | |
| British Independent Film Awards 2018 | Nomination for best international film |
| César 2019 | Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Chicago Film Critics Association 2018 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2019 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association 2018 | 3rd place in the category Best Foreign Language Film |
| Denver Film Festival 2018 | Award for best feature film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Dublin Film Critics' Circle 2018 | 8th place in the Best Film category |
| 7th place in the category Best Director (Hirokazu Koreeda) | |
| Munich Film Festival 2018 | Award for Best International Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Florida Film Critics Circle 2018 | Award for Best Supporting Actress (Sakura Ando) |
| Award for best foreign language film | |
| Golden Globe Awards 2019 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Guldbagge Award 2019 | Award for Best Foreign Language Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Independent Spirit Award 2019 | Nomination for Best International Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Cannes International Film Festival 2018 | Awarded the Golden Palm (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Japanese Academy Award 2019 | Award for Best Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Award for Best Director (Hirokazu Koreeda) | |
| Award for Best Screenplay (Hirokazu Koreeda) | |
| Award for Best Actress (Sakura Ando) | |
| Award for Best Supporting Actress (Kirin Kiki) | |
| Award for the best music (Haruomi Hosono) | |
| Award for the best camera (Ryūto Kondō) | |
| Award for the best lighting (Isamu Fujii) | |
| Nomination for Best Actor (Lily Franky) | |
| Nomination for Best Supporting Actress (Mayu Matsuoka) | |
| Nomination for Best Pattern (Hirokazu Koreeda) | |
| Nomination for Best Production Design (Keiko Mitsumatsu) | |
| Nomination for Best Sound (Kazuhiko Tomita) | |
| Kinema Junpo Awards 2019 | Award for best film |
| London Critics' Circle 2018 | Nomination for film of the year |
| Nomination for Foreign Language Film of the Year | |
| Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2018 | Award for best foreign language film |
| Mainichi Eiga Concours 2019 | Award for best film |
| Award for Best Actress (Sakura Ando) | |
| Award for Best Supporting Actress ( Kirin Kiki ) | |
| National Board of Review 2018 | Award for best foreign language film |
| Nikkan Sports Film Awards 2018 | Award for Best Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Award for Best Actress (Sakura Ando) | |
| Award for Best Supporting Actress (Kirin Kiki) | |
| Online Film Critics Society Award 2019 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Oscar 2019 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| San Diego Film Critics Society 2018 | Award for best foreign language film |
| Satellite Award 2019 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Seattle Film Critics Society 2018 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| St. Louis Film Critics Association 2018 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Tokyo Sports Film Awards 2019 | Award for best film |
| Award for Best Actress (Sakura Ando) | |
| Best Actor Award ( Lily Franky ) | |
| Vancouver Film Critics Circle 2018 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
| Vancouver International Film Festival 2018 | Award for Most Popular International Feature Film (Hirokazu Koreeda) |
| Washington DC Area Film Critics Association 2018 | Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film |
Web links
- Shoplifters - family ties in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Sven von Reden: Heart's blood is stronger than water. Spiegel Online, December 27, 2018, accessed December 29, 2018 .
- ^ A b Thomas E. Schmidt: Idyll of the shoplifters. Zeit Online, December 18, 2018, accessed December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Holger Kreitling: A family secret like no other. Welt Online, December 27, 2018, accessed December 29, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Shoplifters at Rotten Tomatoes , accessed on February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Shoplifters - family ties in the Internet Movie Database (English) , accessed on February 21 of 2019.
- ↑ Shoplifters at Metacritic , accessed on February 21, 2019.
- ↑ AACTA Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Alliance of Women Film Journalists , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Asian Film Award , accessed March 17, 2019.
- ^ Asia Pacific Screen Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Asia Pacific Screen Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Austin Film Critics Association , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ BAFTA Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Bodil Award , accessed March 3, 2019.
- ^ Boston Society of Film Critics , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ British Independent Film Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ César , accessed February 23, 2019.
- ^ Chicago Film Critics Association , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Critics' Choice Movie Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Denver Film Festival , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Dublin Film Critics' Circle , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Munich Film Festival , accessed on February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Florida Film Critics Circle , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Golden Globes , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Guldbagge Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Cannes 2018 , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Kinema Junpo Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ London Critics' Circle , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Los Angeles Film Critics Association , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Mainichi Eiga Concours , accessed on February 21, 2019.
- ^ National Board of Review , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Nikkan Sports Film Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Online Film Critics Society Award , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ San Diego Film Critics Society ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Satellite Award , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Seattle Film Critics Society , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ St. Louis Film Critics Association , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Tokyo Sports Film Awards , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Vancouver Film Critics Circle , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ↑ Vancouver International Film Festival , accessed February 21, 2019.
- ^ Washington DC Area Film Critics Association , accessed February 21, 2019.
