Nobody Knows

Preteen Akira Fukushima (Yûya Yagira) and his young siblings have been abandoned by their mother, Keiko (You). Keiko, who has moved in with a new lover, has left Akira in charge of his brother, two sisters and a whole apartment, with little money and food to see them through. Akira and the other children, who were never enrolled in school, struggle to survive without basic amenities as they cope with a strange, solitary existence in a Tokyo apartment building.

Keywords

  • Cannes : Winners' Filmography
  • Cinéart: 50 Years of Great Cinema
  • Escape to the 2000s
  • Fien Troch’s favourite films
  • Film by the Sea
  • Film Fest Gent !
  • From a Child’s Perspective
  • Japanese Cinema
  • Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s favourite films
  • Joachim Lafosse’s favourite films
  • Michaël R. Roskam's favorite films
  • Only on Sooner
  • The Sooner team's favorites: Sarah
  • Childhood

Actors

  • Yuichi Kimura
  • Ayu Kitaura
  • Hanae Kan
  • Takako Tate
  • Ryo Kase
  • Momoko Shimizu
  • Yûya Yagira
  • You
  • Sei Hiraizumi
  • Yukiko Okamoto
  • Susumu Terajima
  • Hiei Kimura

Director

  • Hirokazu Kore-Eda

Drama

2h 21min

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Japan
2003
Preteen Akira Fukushima (Yûya Yagira) and his young siblings have been abandoned by their mother, Keiko (You). Keiko, who has moved in with a new lover, has left Akira in charge of his brother, two sisters and a whole apartment, with little money and food to see them through. Akira and the other children, who were never enrolled in school, struggle to survive without basic amenities as they cope with a strange, solitary existence in a Tokyo apartment building.

Preteen Akira Fukushima (Yûya Yagira) and his young siblings have been abandoned by their mother, Keiko (You). Keiko, who has moved in with a new lover, has left Akira in charge of his brother, two sisters and a whole apartment, with little money and food to see them through. Akira and the other children, who were never enrolled in school, struggle to survive without basic amenities as they cope with a strange, solitary existence in a Tokyo apartment building.


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