Sheep In The Box movie review: Grief in the age of AI | Hollywood News
4 min readCannesMay 18, 2026 12:36 PM IST Sheep In The Box movie review: 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. Those with long memories may remember famous science fiction writer Isaac Asimov toying with the revolutionary idea (at the time of his writing from the 30s to the 50s) of sentient robots from his earliest work. Phillip K Dick, who many thought carried Asimov’s legacy forward, wrote his legendary book in 1968, which was …