Japan's Koreeda wins Cannes Palme d'Or for "Shoplifters"

Director Hirokazu Koreeda won the Palme d'Or at the annual Cannes International Film Festival for his work "Shoplifters," becoming the first Japanese to take the prize in 21 years.The film depicts a family who, while living on a grandmother's meager pension, send their children to steal from stores. A series of media reports about people fraudulently claiming the pension in Japan inspired Koreeda's film.Before Koreeda, the most recent Japanese winner of the Palme D'Or was director Shohei Imamura who won the award for his film "The Eel" in 1997. Shoplifters became the fifth Japanese work to …READ FULL ARTICLE