Plot
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.
Cast
as Osamu Shibata
as Nobuyo Shibata
as Aki Shibata
as Shota Shibata
as Yuri
as Hatsue Shibata
as 4 Ban-san
as Yuzuru Shibata
as Yoko Shibata
as Yasu Hojo
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Reviews
A genuinely super film about a family of small time chancers who survive on their wits on the verge of poverty. There is something almost Fagin-esque about their behaviour, but in best Robin Hood tradition we always feel that their small-scale criminal activities are carried out as a result of necessity than from any need or wish to do anyone else any harm. They take in a little girl off the stre…