Well Go USA Entertainment has released a trailer and set a U.S. release date for “Shoplifters” and “Broker” director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film “Monster”.
The Rashomon-style drama centers on Minato (Soya Kurokawa), a young boy who is displaying increasingly worrying behavior both at school and at home.
His mother Saori (Sakura Ando) decides to discuss it with the teaching staff at his school and soon suspects his teacher, Hori (Eita Nagayama), is the source of all the problems. As the mystery unfolds, the truth turns out to be more complex than expected.
Each of the three acts of the film shifts perspective starting with the mother, switching to the teacher in the second, and finishing with the child in the third act. Events unfold between an apartment fire at the start and a typhoon towards the end.
As a result of the perspective shifts, some things that look one way early on take on an entirely different context later in the film.
Kore-Eda won Best Screenplay prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for the film which will begin its U.S. run on November 22nd in New York, followed by a December 1st release in Los Angeles and going wider through the winter.
It marks Kore-Eda’s ninth movie overall and only his second where someone else did the script. It marks the final work of legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto (” Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence,” “The Last Emperor,” “The Revenant”).
