Season 5: Contemporary Asian Filmmakers

035: Hirokazu Koreeda's Shoplifters

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“Usually you can’t choose your own parents.”

“But then, maybe it’s stronger when you choose them yourself.”

Andrew and Omaya talk Koreeada’s Shoplifters, a film about family and connection that won the Palme d’Or in 2018. It’s a beautiful story with lots of surprises, as emotionally moving as it is shocking. Listen as we discuss each character as well as Koreeada’s career thus far.

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SEASON 5 LINEUP

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Cemetery of Splendor

Bong Joon-ho
The Host
Snowpiercer

Hirokazu Kore-eda
Shoplifters
The Truth

LINKS

• What Omaya’s been watching
  • One Night in Miami
  • Real Life
• What Andrew’s been watching
  • The Way I See It
  • One Night in Miami
  • Nomadland
  • Dreamland
  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette
  • What We Do In The Shadows
• Shoplifters trailer
• Watch Shoplifters on Hulu

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