As he has done in so many times before, such as in Nobody Knows, Like Father, Like Son, and, most similarly, in 2018’s Palme d’Or winning masterpiece, Shoplifters, Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda again explores this question of family in his new film Broker. And, as in those other movies, he seems to argue that your family are not necessarily those to whom you are bound by blood. Instead, your family are those to whom you are bound by love, regardless of the circumstances that pulled you together.

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