Nobody Knows
(2004)
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Nobody Knows
(2004)
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Yûya Yagira | ... | |
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Ayu Kitaura | ... |
Kyoko
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Hiei Kimura | ... |
Shigeru
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Momoko Shimizu | ... | |
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Hanae Kan | ... |
Saki
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You | ... |
Keiko, the mother
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Kazuyoshi Kushida | ... |
Yoshinaga, The Landlord
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Yukiko Okamoto | ... |
Eriko Yoshinaga
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Sei Hiraizumi | ... |
Mini-market Manager
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| Ryo Kase | ... |
Mini-market Employee
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Takako Tate | ... |
Mini-market teller
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Yûichi Kimura | ... |
Sugihara (Taxi Driver)
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Ken'ichi Endô | ... | |
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Susumu Terajima | ... |
Baseball coach
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Shinichi Hashizawa |
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In Tokyo, the reckless single mother Keiko moves to a small apartment with her twelve years old son Akira Fukushima and hidden in the luggage, his siblings Kyoko, Shigeru and Yuki. The children have different fathers and do not have schooling, but they have a happy life with their mother. When Keiko finds a new boyfriend, she leaves the children alone, giving some money to Akira and assigning him to take care of his siblings. When the money finishes, Akira manages to find means to survive with the youngsters without power supply, gas or water at home, and with the landlord asking for the rental. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It has been a while since I saw a film with this much humanity. That is, until I saw acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda's latest, Nobody Knows, about a quartet of siblings left to fend for themselves.
It's heartbreaking, just thinking about some of these random moments subtly displayed on screen. The look on an adolescent girl's face when her mom paints her nails. A little boy making silly faces in the mirror. A little girl's scribbling of stick people on a gas bill that has been months overdue... I can go on.
I wish I can put into words, or convey in some sort of way, the flowing of rampant emotions experienced when I saw these images: about how much it hit so close to home, how much it reminded me of my own family. But I can't. I guess it simply cannot be articulated in such a concise, simplified manner.
You'll just have to see it for yourself.