Picturehouse Entertainment has released the trailer for Broker, the forthcoming South Korean drama from the critically acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters), which took home the Best Actor award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for Parasite and Memories of Murder star Song Kang-Ho.
The story of two opportunist thieves who take a child from a ‘baby box’, a place where struggling parents can anonymously leave their unwanted infants, who seek to benefit financially by finding the child new parents, that is until the mother has a change of heart and comes back looking to reclaim him, all while detectives monitor their every movie. Also starring Gang Dong-won (Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula), Bae Doona (Kingdom), Lee Joo-young (Times), and Lee Ji-eun (Hotel del Luna); you can check out the trailer below….
Sang-hyun (SONG Kang Ho) runs a laundry shop, but is constantly saddled with debt. Dong-soo (GANG Dong Won), who grew up in an orphanage, works in a baby box facility. One night in the pouring rain, they secretly carry off an infant who was left at the baby box. But on the following day, the mother So-young (LEE Ji Eun) unexpectedly returns for her son Woo-sung. Realizing that her baby has been taken, she is about to call the police when the two men tell her everything. Their claim that they stole the baby in order to find him a good home seems outrageous, but So-young ends up joining Sang-hyun and Dong-soo on a journey to find new parents for Woo-sung. Meanwhile, police detective Su-jin (BAE Doona) and her younger colleague Detective Lee (LEE Joo Young) are witnessing all of this as it unfolds. They silently tail the group, hoping to catch them in the act at all costs to wrap up their half-year investigation. Brought together by chance through a baby box, the five individuals embark on an unusual and unexpected journey.
Broker opens in UK & Irish cinemas on 24th February 2023.
Originally published January 12, 2023. Updated January 11, 2023.
