Broker (2022) on Netflix
NR20222h 9m
Sang-hyeon and Dong-soo sell babies left in a church's baby box on the adoption black market. So-young leaves her newborn Woo-sung there, then joins them to meet potential adoptive parents.
- Netflix4.1/5
- IMDb7.1/1021,094 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes94%
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Plot summary
Sang-hyeon volunteers at a church whose baby box lets people leave infants anonymously. With his friend Dong-soo, he takes the babies left there and sells them through the adoption black market. So-young, a young mother, leaves her newborn Woo-sung at the church and then returns. Dong-soo explains the men's plan, and she decides to travel with the two of them to meet potential adoptive parents for the boy. Detectives Soo-jin and Lee are investigating the brokers. The group also visits the orphanage that Dong-soo grew up in, and a child from the home, Hae-jin, climbs into their van and joins them.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Broker (2022)
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- Song Kang-ho became the first South Korean actor to win Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, taking the prize in 2022 for Broker.
- Director Hirokazu Kore-eda struggled with the ending of Broker and rewrote it many times during shooting, working on it with star Song Kang-ho.
- The first image Kore-eda had for Broker was of Song Kang-ho in a priest's outfit, holding a baby, smiling at it and then selling it.
- Kore-eda first had the idea while researching the Japanese adoption system for his 2013 film Like Father, Like Son, and learned about Japan's only baby box and the criticism surrounding it.
- After casting Lee Ji-eun, who is also a well-known singer in South Korea, Kore-eda added a scene in which she sings a lullaby.
- Broker became the first film directed by Kore-eda to pass 1 million admissions in South Korea, crossing the mark in 11 days of release.
- Kore-eda cast Lee Ji-eun after watching Korean dramas while in quarantine, including My Mister, and she accepted because she looked forward to playing a mother.
