Shoplifters AKA Manbiki Kazoku

Shoplifters AKA Manbiki Kazoku

Fuji TV etc.

8 June 2018

Drama

DVD
C-

Not as depressing as it could be.  Hirokazu Koreeda directed and wrote, fourteen years after Nobody Knows AKA Dare mo Shiranai, which I liked better but also found deliberately unsettling.

Nobody Knows AKA Dare mo Shiranai

Nobody Knows AKA Dare mo Shiranai

Cinequanon

7 August 2004

Drama

DVD
C+

The first two hours, I wasn't sure what I thought of this movie, although I was definitely intrigued.  And then in the last twenty minutes, I was on the fence between a C+ and a B-, but there was no closure, other than that these children's lives will probably go on like this, with no adult helping them in any big way, but also no adult reporting them to the authorities.  Hirokazu Koreeda wrote and directed.