“Critic’s Pick! BROKER doesn’t feel overplotted, overly cute or excessively melodramatic. Kore-Eda has an emotionally direct style, a way of fusing naturalism and fable that recalls the neorealist magic of Vittorio De Sica.”
—A.O. Scott, New York Times
“The execution of this premise is, somehow, miraculous in its sensitivity, asking questions about issues of ethics, of choice, of money, and murder, and family, and how to find love in all this sorry mess.”
—IndieWire
Five years after winning the Palme d’Or for SHOPLIFTERS, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with BROKER, starring Cannes Best Actor winner Song Kang Ho (PARASITE).
The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.
