Sheep in the Box
Drama Science Fiction Japanese
Set in the near future, Otone Komoto works as an architect. She is married to Kensuke Komoto, who runs a construction company. The married couple decide to welcome a humanoid robot into their home as their son.
| Cast: | Haruka Ayase, Daigo Yamamoto, Kuwaki Rimu, Nana Seino, Kanichiro, Hinata Hiiragi, Akihiro Kakuta, Kayo Noro, Mari Hoshino, Ayumu Nakajima, Kimiko Yo |
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| Director: | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Editor: | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| Camera: | Ryuto Kondo |
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Grief in the Age of AI
Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film Sheep in the Box, which revolves around a young boy and his humanoid siblings, earned a four-minute ovation from the audience at Cannes 2026.jpg
There cannot be anything more timely than the premise of Hirokazu Koreeda’s Cannes Competition entry, ‘Sheep In The Box’, which deals with the evolving nature of grief in the age of AI: a couple who’ve lost their young son bring home a humanoid android, who looks and sounds exactly like their boy. It is when Kakeru ( Rimu Kuwaki) begins to show signs of thinking like their son that Otone ( Ayase Haruka) and Kensuke ( Daigo Yamamoto) start wondering about the larger implications of their actions. The question- does a machine have a soul– has been at the heart of such discussions for a long time.
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