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Hirokazu Kore-eda

Nobody Knows (Daremo Shiranai)

Director Hirokazu Kore-eda Music (original) Gontiti Cast Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura
Edition 2004
141' - 2004 - Drama - Format: 35mm - Dialogue: Japanese
Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They 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, asking her 12-year-old boy to look after the others. And so begins the children’s odyssey, a journey nobody knows.
Though engulfed by the cruel fate of abandonment, the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising and following their own set of rules. When they are forced to engage with the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses. Their innocent longing for their mother, their wary fascination toward the outside world, their anxiety over their increasingly desperate situation, their inarticulate cries, their kindness to each other, their determination to survive on wits and courage…

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Credits

Directors

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Music (original)

Gontiti

Cast

Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura

Scenario

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Director of Photography

Yutaka Yamazaki

Editors

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Producers

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Sales agent

Celluloid Dreams

Production studios

TV Man Union

Distributor

Cinéart

More info

Dialogue

Japanese

Countries of production

Japan

Year

2004

Technical Specs

Format
35mm