Song Kang-ho and Gang Dong-won with a little bundle of cash-making joy;
“THE WORLD IS already full of stories of the rest of us,” says Hirokazu Kore-eda when Empire asks why he champions underdogs in his work. The Japanese director’s latest film, Broker, continues his fascination with people who live on society’s periphery, from the criminal family in his Palme d’Or winner Shoplifters to the scrappy siblings in his 2004 drama Nobody Knows. Broker, his first movie set in South Korea, stars Parasite’s Song Kang-ho as a launderette owner, who with his partner (Gang Dong-won) runs an illegal business selling on babies left in a local church’s ‘baby box’ (a hole-in-the-wall where infants can be dropped off anonymously).