Once again, upscale cinematic art from Asia. One of the actors, Song Kang-ho, by now a well-known South Korean promise of quality meets Japanese director Koreeda, "Shoplifters" had some hype.
The magic: a rat pack of fundamentally different people, who are initially connected to each other exclusively by a fundamentally unsympathetic scheme, one that is so base, inhumane and of ice-cold calculation, grows again every logic to the viewer's heart with every minute of play. And without any kitsch, these characters, battered by the past, find their way to each other and to the questioning of right and wrong. To make the cliché-free ending complete, not a rosy one (but not one with horror either, simply one from life).
The magic: a rat pack of fundamentally different people, who are initially connected to each other exclusively by a fundamentally unsympathetic scheme, one that is so base, inhumane and of ice-cold calculation, grows again every logic to the viewer's heart with every minute of play. And without any kitsch, these characters, battered by the past, find their way to each other and to the questioning of right and wrong. To make the cliché-free ending complete, not a rosy one (but not one with horror either, simply one from life).