Shoplifters is the Latest Emotional Sucker-Punch from Japanese Maestro Hirokazu Kore-eda | NYFF 2018

In a ramshackle house in a Tokyo suburb, there lives an impoverished family who steal to survive. The bulk of their finances comes from the pension of grandma Hatsue’s (Kirin Kiki) dead ex-husband, a pittance of ¥60,000 ($527.69) a month—plus…

Blank 13 is the Most Original and Moving Film on Death, Mourning, and Grief in Years

Charlie Kaufman once wrote that death comes faster than you think, and this is true but it also leaves slower than you’d want, for with a passing comes the flood of memories leaving a you-sized crater in the hearts of…