Penn State Film Series – Shoplifters

The fourth and final film in this year’s Global Oscar Film Series is the Japanese movie Shoplifters.

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders are united by fierce loyalty, a penchant for petty theft and playful grifting. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence and test their quietly radical belief that it is love—not blood—that defines a family. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda