Acclaimed Japanese Film SHOPLIFTERS Screens Tuesday Night at Webster University

Kore-eda Hirokazu’s SHOPLIFTERS (2018) will be screening at Webster University Thursday September 17th atWebster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The Film starts at 7:30 pm. A Facebook invite can be found HERE

The winner of the Palme d’Or (the highest prize) at Cannes last year and nominated for the Oscar for best foreign-language film, Shoplifters on some level feels like Kore-eda’s long-overdue international breakthrough, where as we see in our retrospective of his films, he’s reliably been making masterpieces for decades. Revisiting his favorite themes of family and class, Shoplifters focuses on a charmingly fringey family who steal to make ends meet. Early in the film they kidnap (or maybe save?) a five-year-old girl named Juri (Miyu Sasaki) and bring her into the fold of their lifestyle.

In Japanese with English subtitles.

Admission is:

$7 for the general public
$6 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$5 for Webster University staff and faculty

Free for Webster students with proper I.D.