This is a really thought-provoking, deeply, deeply affecting crime drama that opens with a darkly comic scene of a man and a boy shopstealing and from there becomes a cleverly constructed treatise on familial and extrafamilial influences upon the making of men (or snowmen) set against a backdrop of an underemployed but resilient, poverty-stricken but emotionally rich, broken and lonely but warm Japanese society, and don't be fooled by the pace - director Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama will hit you for six.
★★★★★
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