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- 2005
- PG-13
- IFC Films
- 2 h 21 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- IFC Films
- 2 h 21 m
Summary Set in Tokyo, this is an exceptional story of a makeshift family of children left to survive in an urban jungle. (IFC Films)
Directed By: Hirokazu Koreeda
Written By: Hirokazu Koreeda
- 2005
- PG-13
- IFC Films
- 2 h 21 m
- 2005
- PG-13
- IFC Films
- 2 h 21 m
Nobody Knows
7.8
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Summary Set in Tokyo, this is an exceptional story of a makeshift family of children left to survive in an urban jungle. (IFC Films)
Directed By: Hirokazu Koreeda
Written By: Hirokazu Koreeda
Where to Watch
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Universal Acclaim
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 31 Critic Reviews
88
100% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Beautiful, elevating and achingly sad.
Yagira's performance is so extraordinary, it won him the best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes film festival.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
11% Mixed
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7% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 46 User Ratings
7.8
83% Positive
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
11% Mixed
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
7% Negative
3 Ratings
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Nobody Knows shows how no one knows how great this movie can be and this proves it just by watching it. The secrets will be revealed and nobody must know!
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Film Director, Hirokazu Kore-eda's take on a real life event of child abandonment in Japan. In Nobody Knows, Four children are left to fend for themselves when their mother takes off. The eldest son, Akira, is left in charge of his younger sisters and brother. He is forced to "grow up" and take charge but can only do so much. Hirokazu Kore-eda's cinematic progression and pacing is slow but riveting. It's a quiet film, yet spilling over with emotion. It's a comment on society and family. It reflects the status and shows us a cinematic situation of child abandonment it's not just a "pointless" and "boring" film. The kids act like kids. It's moving and eye-opening. As I say about all movies: Don't go in with expectations. Be surprised, entertained, and enlightened!
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Unfolds with such leisurely, terrible beauty, it takes a while to realize that what we are witnessing is the children's long slide into beggary, exacerbated by the slow torture of faint hope.
Kore-eda expresses the terror of the kids' predicament with a touch that's equally tender and dispassionate.
A beautiful but depressing film.
It's a heart-sundering vision of preadolescent helplessness that rivals passages of "Landscape in the Mist" and "Ponette."
Beguiling but long-winded.
An admirable film with very beautiful plans and a perceptive director who has been able to create realism with a film. The film is very effective with few dialogues but with strong images and little and wise music.
The film is in praise of childhood and the story of four children who become victims in an irresponsible and passive world. Although the story of the film is sad, the strength of the film is that it is full of effort, sacrifice and hope. At the end of the film, the image shows the four children happily going home after shopping, and the image is fixed. Although the director wants to make us think of children and childhood, I personally like the movement of children in the depth of the picture towards the future. The movie should be seen and enjoyed.
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Undeniably, one of the best Japanese films I've ever seen in years. The story was so unique that it expressed an extraordinary unwelcoming senses of sympathy along with anger. Despite of that, the movie also possessed a sense of warmth that can make you fall into tears before you even realized.
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I was quite disappointed with this movie, it was very slow, lacking in character arcs, plot or emotion. The abandonment and the 'fending for themselves' is interesting, but it's half shot like a documentary, half shot like a progressive drama. But there's very little to take from the film. The characters are pretty shallow, despite the great acting and close-up shots. A movie this reminded me a lot of is King Of the Hill, a fantastically made movie about a boy left to fend for himself as his parents have to leave. There's adventure, a coming-of-age character arc, a plot with strong overtones. Very strongly written characters in addition to the good cast. Obviously they're not identical films, but I would recommend King Of The Hill tenfold over this. I'm a hugely into Asian cinema, but other than good camerawork, there's very little to this film.
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Production Company
Bandai Visual Company,
Cine Qua Non Films,
Engine Film,
Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs,
Nobody Knows Project Team,
TV Man Union,
c-style
Release Date Feb 4, 2005
Duration 2 h 21 m
Rating PG-13
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Website
http://www.daremoshiranai.com/
Awards
Kinema Junpo Awards
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Blue Ribbon Awards
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Mainichi Film Concours
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
