Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner is a heartrending glimpse into an often invisible segment of Japanese society: those struggling to stay afloat in the face of crushing poverty. On the the margins of Tokyo, a most unusual “family”—a collection of societal castoffs united by their shared outsiderhood and fierce loyalty to one another—survives by petty stealing and grifting. When they welcome into their fold a young girl who’s been abused by her parents, they risk exposing themselves to the authorities and upending their tenuous, below-the-radar existence. The director’s latest masterful, richly observed human drama makes the quietly radical case that it is love—not blood—that defines a family.

Hirokazu Kore-eda is now an established Cannes heavyweight and he shows why with this complex and nuanced family drama.

★★★★ - The Guardian

 Hirokazu Kore-eda reaffirms himself as one of the world’s best auteurs with this heartbreaking drama about a different kind of crime family
- Indiewire

 Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d'Or winner is a thrilling, beautiful tale of Toyko's down-and-outs
★★★★★ - The Telegraph