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Dare mo shiranai (2004)
Great film
I've seen it for the first time maybe like a year ago but, was just looking through some of it again and noticed how many good scenes there are in this film. It also has great atmosphere that pulls you in partly due to the cinematography and overall realism. The kids acting is very believable. Especially the oldest and the two youngest kids. I guess at some points the two youngest aren't even acting, they're playing themselves and it looks so natural that it greatly increases the realism of the film. After seeing this film I thought I could never be fully immersed in a normal fiction film. I felt like I had watched a documentary but then I remembered that this wasn't a documentary but a fiction based on real events. This is a film that makes you forget you're watching a film. And this is not the case with a lot of films these days for me. The soundtrack is subtle and moving.
I'm bothered by the fact that I could have just missed this film and not seen it. I found it on IMDb. Who knows how many other good films are out there that I just missed because there wasn't a big budget promotion for them.