Shoplifters: We Are Not Sentimental

This week we're discussing Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2018 masterpiece Shoplifters. It's a film deeply concerned with the question of what makes a family.

What does it mean to be a family? How is 'family' defined by the state and private property? And how might we describe forms of care and survival in other terms? We talk about how the film grapples with these questions and more.

Spoilers: noodles, child liberation, kidnapping, theft, more noodles, the care commune.

Thanks to Adwoa Agyepong for recommending Shoplifters!

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Music by Kirk Rawlings from Courtesy and beige on beige

Cover art by Tuli Lane-McKinley