Synopsis
Sang-hyun is always struggling from debt, and Dong-soo works at a baby box facility. On a rainy night, they steal the baby Woo-sung, who was left in the baby box, to sell him at a good price. Meanwhile, detectives were watching, and they quietly track them down to capture the crucial evidence.
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Cast
- Song Kang-hoSang-hyun
- Gang Dong-wonDong-soo
- Bae DoonaSu-jin
- IUSo-young
- Lee Joo-youngDetective Lee
- Lim Seung-sooHae-jin
- Park Ji-yongWoo-sung
- Song Sae-byukOrphanage Director
- Kim Sun-youngOrphanage Director's wife
- Lee Moo-saengSeon-ho
Recommendations
- 100
BBC
Broker keeps on getting funnier and knottier as secret motives are revealed, sympathies shift, mysteries deepen and dangers multiply. It is, on one level, a farcical crime caper, but it is so elegantly plotted that it never seems contrived. - 100
The Playlist
Absorbing and heartwarming, it’s easy to forget that this tender drama is about human trafficking. - 91
IndieWire
It’s one of the master’s most transparent and — when it comes to confrontations about what parents, and specifically women, can or should do for themselves and for the babies they are forever bound to — brave films of his career. - 90
Screen Daily
As often with Kore-eda’s pictures, Broker is about family, but it extends beyond that theme to talk about fundamental aspects of life — the need to belong, the hope of connecting with likeminded souls, and the desire to find a place called home. - 85
Vanity Fair
Gentle, sad, and funny in a just-shy-of-cutesy way, Broker continues Kore-eda’s tradition of handling tough subject matter with a light touch. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Much of this might have been formulaic in less artful hands, but Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment. - 80
Time Out
The hackneyed thieves-with-a-heart-of-gold trope is reinvigorated by the sharpness of the writing and Song’s Basset Hound charms. While Broker occasionally gets close to cloying, especially in its neat ending and jaunty score, Koreeda keeps it the right side of cutesy. It’s best enjoyed as a modern-day fairy tale – only, one where the abandoned baby sparks nothing but enchantment. - 80
Variety
Kore-eda is surprisingly generous toward his characters, nearly all of whom are breaking the law, but whose fundamental decency is brought out when dealing with others in need.
