Can a robot assuage a family’s grief?

The loss of a child is serious business, but director Hirokazu Kore-eda treats the subject gently in Sheep in the Box, a fable bolstered by a touch of sci-fi. Kore-eda's screenplay involves a humanoid, a robot child that enters the movie to ease the pain of two grieving parents ( Daigo Yamamoto and Haruka Ayase ). A company called Rebirth contacts the grieving couple. The company creates an exact…