Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004)

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8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Hirokazu Koreeda

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Yûya Yagira
Akira Fukushima

Ayu Kitaura
Kyoko

Hiei Kimura
Shigeru

Momoko Shimizu
Yuki

Hanae Kan
Saki

You
Keiko, the mother

Yukiko Okamoto
Eriko Yoshinaga

Sei Hiraizumi
Mini-market Manager

Written by

Hirokazu Koreeda

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17 years, 9 months ago at Jul 8 14:47

skykid

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The acting is good , the story as well - it is a coming of age story and still the movie seemed a bit too long and slow paced. I liked some of the scenes - and really admired what the young Akira did for his brothers and sisters - he was taking care of them when they were abandoned by their mother - locked between four walls - no one knew about them.

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16 years, 10 months ago at Jun 14 16:31

nataliegoes

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The story starts out with a mother and son moving into a new apartment, and all seems normal. The mother is cute and funny, and the son is smart and helpful. But as the story unfolds, you learn that there are two younger children safely hiding in suitcases. And yet later, an older daughter waiting at the train station until after dark to sneak in. Not having read anything about this movie befo... read more

An impressive movie

14 years, 2 months ago at Feb 3 13:37

johanlefourbe

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To be honest, I wonder how actually ended up watching this flick. If I recall it correctly, I read some good things about it on our TV magazine and I thought I might as well check it out. Usually, I don’t really care about true stories but this one was just really heartbreaking and, apparently, the original event called the Sugamo child abandonment case was actually even more worse (to think th... read more

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Abandoned by their mother mere months after moving to their new apartment, four siblings; Akira, Yuki, Kyoko and Shigeru are left to survive on their own without any outside help. With separate fathers and none of them willing to take up responsibility, elder brother Akira takes charge and does whatever means necessary to ensure his family’s survival.

UPC: 027616928931

Tags: Japanese (11), Japan (9), Drama (8), 2000s (7), Childhood (5), Abandonment (4), (4), Isolation (4), Poverty (4), Children (4), 2004 (4), Coming Of Age (4), Asian (3), Dysfunctional Family (3), Foreign (3), Jdrama (2), Sort (2), Family (2), Spiritual Cinema (2), East Asia (2)

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" In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning. However, although he is very mature for his age, his youth eventually catches up with him, thereby revealing his deficits. The responsibility of parenting several children was a heavy mantle to bear, which sees Akira making unwise decisions that threaten the family's survival. "

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“The acting is good , the story as well - it is a coming of age story and still the movie seemed a bit too long and slow paced. I liked some of the sce”