Last year's Cannes Palm d'Or winner from Japan is about a manufactured family of small-time crooks, who may be good-natured, but justify their methods (".. it's not stealing because in the shop doesn't belong to anybody yet"; "... it's not kidnapping because we didn't ask for ransom"). But the film poses a grander question: can you choose your family - choose who to call brother, sister, or dad? This film, like other Hirokazu Koreeda films, is very slow-paced (even including an opening shoplifting scene). But that may be the point, because the lives of these people is anything but exciting.
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