Director
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Music (original)
Gontiti
Cast
Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura
Edition 2004
141'
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2004
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Drama
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Format:
35mm
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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…
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
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Dialogue
Japanese
Countries of production
Japan
Year
2004
Technical Specs
Format
35mm