Nobody Knows
Daremo shiranai
Japan
2004
141 Min
Color
1.66:1
Japanese
Synopsis
Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. In fact, the children all have different fathers and have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. And so begins the children’s odyssey, a journey nobody knows. –Cannes Film Festival
Director
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Born in Tokyo in 1962. Originally intended to be a novelist, but after graduating from Waseda University in 1987 went on to become an assistant director at TV Man Union. Sneaked off set to film Lessons from a Calf (1991). His first feature, Maboroshi no hikari (1995), based on a Teru Miyamoto novel and drawn from his own experiences whilst filming August Without Him (1994), won jury prizes at Venice and Chicago. The main themes of his oeuvre include memory and loss, death and loss, and the intersection of documentary and fictional narratives. —IMDb
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Willa Wang
7Apr13
An aesthetic process, in which what matters the most is how everything is presented. The director depicts a story of such content without a drip of false emotion. I don't see it as a sad movie. Call it prettification, or art; this is cinema.
Después del invierno, invierno....
5Aug12
It was so sad, that I was unable to cry... I couldn't breathe..or cry...I was just paralyzed with sorrow.. This would only come second to Night & Fog to me, when it comes to what I would consider the "saddest" films..
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Regrets & Memories: A Conversation With Hirokazu Kore-Eda
By Michael Guillen on August 29, 2009
A talk with the Japanese director about his film Still Walking.
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By David Hudson on August 27, 2009
"What's remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's seventh feature film and one every bit as sensitive as his
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C'est dans l'adversité que l'enfance se révèle
By hubertguillaud on July 24, 2012
C’est dans l’adversité que l’enfance se révèle, souligne la délicatesse de la mise en scène de Hirokazu Kore-eda. Dans ce drame qu’une tension aigüe traverse du début à la fin, Hirokazu Kore-eda offre… read review
Nobody Knows
By LoverofLeCinema on June 12, 2012
Nobody Knows
The film opens with a mother and son moving into a small apartment with big bags of luggage. Once the land lords leave them to unpack, small children emerge from the suitcases… read review
So Beautiful, So Horrible
By lolo341 on November 27, 2011
Nobody Knows is one of the most beautiful and lyrical works I’ve seen, yet so tragic. It’s loosely based on an actual incident that took place in 1980s Japan known as “The Affair of the Four Abandoned… read review
Wonderful acting
By Platonykiss on April 3, 2010
One of sadest films among all the sad films I have ever seen which causes a characteristic resistence among the audience. I don’t judge the film for being realistic or not…
It shows extreme… read review
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