english title | Nobody knows |
original title | Dare Mo Shiranai |
year | 2004 |
country | Japan |
director | KOREEDA Hirokazu - 是枝裕和 | |
actor | YAGIRA Yuuya | |
KITAURA Ayu | ||
KIMURA Hiei | ||
SHIMIZU Momoko | ||
ENDO Kenichi - 遠藤憲一 | ||
KIMURA Yûichi | ||
TATE Takako | ||
HIRAIZUMI Sei - 平泉成 | ||
OKAMOTO Yukiko | ||
KUSHIDA Kazuyoshi | ||
YOU | ||
KAN Hanae | ||
KASE Ryo | ||
TERAJIMA Susumu - 寺島進 | ||
producer | KOREEDA Hirokazu - 是枝裕和 | |
composer | MATSUMURA Titi | |
scriptwriter | KOREEDA Hirokazu - 是枝裕和 | |
artistic director | ISOMI Toshihiro | |
editor | KOREEDA Hirokazu - 是枝裕和 | |
cinematographer | YAMASAKI Yutaka | |
executive producer | SHIGENOBU Yutaka | |
sound director | TSURUMAKI Yutaka | |
associated producer | KONO Satoshi | |
URATANI Toshiro |
genres | drama social |
duration | 141mn |
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 wart 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...
(source: DVD)