Shoplifters Is The First Japanese Film To Win at the Cannes Film Festival In Over Two Decades
Azeem Rajulawalla, BA History
Image credit: ARTHUR MOLA
This year’s winner of the big prize Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival went to Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ‘Shoplifters’, a social drama about a makeshift, poverty-stricken family relying on shoplifting to survive in Tokyo. The first Japanese