The Broker Film Poster Explained: Klaus Kremmerz on Capturing Kore-eda’s Story
"Broker" is a beautiful new film by the Cannes Palme D'or winning director Hirokazu Kore-eda. The poster art for Picturehouse Cinemas illustrated by Klaus Kremmerz features key moments from the film illustrated in Klaus' distinctive style.
Broker Film Poster
Klaus has distilled the film into a sequence of quiet, narrative beats—almost like a storyboard of emotional turning points rather than literal scenes. The key moments represented in the poster are:
The baby box moment
A lone figure stands at a window in the rain—this reflects So-young leaving her child, the inciting act that sets everything in motion.The city intersection
A slightly disorienting urban junction—suggesting the moral ambiguity and tangled paths of the illegal adoption network.The cable car journey
Two characters suspended above the city—an in-between space, echoing the uncertain relationships forming within the group.The countryside with wind turbines
Open landscapes and travel—pointing to the road trip structure and the search for a new home.The seaside pause
The group կանգing together at sunset—arguably the emotional core of the film, where the idea of “family” quietly emerges.The van on the road
The recurring image of movement—representing both escape and pursuit, as they are followed by detectives.
What’s smart about it:
Klaus avoids plot-heavy moments and instead selects transitional, reflective scenes—the spaces between action where Kore-eda’s films actually live.
“BROKER’ FILM SYNOPSIS
On a rainy night in Busan, So-young (Lee ‘IU’ Ji-eun) leaves her baby Woo-sung outside a ‘baby box’, a safe place set up in Korean churches for new mothers to leave unwanted infants. Instead, he’s picked up by Sang-hyun (Parasite’s Song Kang-ho) who runs an unofficial adoption brokerage and plans to find him a new home.
So-young tracks down both Sang-hyun and his business partner Dong-soo (Gang Dong-won) and decides to join their pursuit (alongside a seven-year-old stowaway from a nearby orphanage), but as they search for Woo-sung’s new family, the unlikely group evolves into something of a family themselves – unaware they’re being tailed by two detectives (Doona Bae, Lee Joo-young) who are determined to stop them.
Heartwarming, funny and moving, Broker is the outstanding new film from Hirokazu Kore-eda, the acclaimed director of Shoplifters.
A wonderful collaboration with the @picturehouses Production team. Thank for the trust and the opportunity.
Thanks also to Hirokazu Koreeda for approving Klaus' artwork.
