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Nobody Knows
Directed by
Hirokazu Kore-eda
2004
2h 21m
PG-13
Drama
8
92%
93%
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In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
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Cast of Nobody Knows
Yuya Yagira
Akira
Ayu Kitaura
Kyoko
Hiei Kimura
Shigeru
Momoko Shimizu
Yuki
Hanae Kan
Saki
YOU
Keiko
Ryo Kase
Hiroyama Jun
Kazuyoshi Kushida
Yoshinaga
Yukiko Okamoto
Eriko Yoshinaga
Sei Hiraizumi
Tsukasa Nakanobu
Takako Tate
Sanae Miyajima
Yuichi Kimura
Sugihara
Kenichi Endo
Kazutaka Kyohashi
Susumu Terajima
Shinichi Izawa
Shinichi Hashizawa
Keiko's Husband
Nobody Knows Reviews
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
At its heart, Nobody Knows is a sweet salute to the tenacity and courage of children who are blithely mistreated by adults who should know better and probably do.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
Nobody Knows will chill you, further proof that the ability to procreate does not automatically qualify you to be a parent.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
Profoundly sad, but it's made with such artistry that it's almost uplifting; you watch it mesmerized, immersed in the strange community the children create.
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
Kore-eda has an astonishing talent for making us feel the same emotional aches as the kids.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
This gem from Hirokazu Kore-eda unfolds with the graceful simplicity of a real-life episode turned into a minimalist fable.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
It's a quietly powerful work, pulsing with gentle humor and a gripping sense of imminent calamity and dread.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
One of those rare, unexpected movies that gets to you in a way you've never been gotten to before. Never mind tears. It leaves you with a stunned heart.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Hirokazu Kore-eda has made a film that's almost physically painful to watch. Spare and elegant and harrowing, it's an ode to childhood trust being stretched until it snaps.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Takes us on a journey into the special domain of childhood, a voyage joyous, shattering -- and supremely convincing.
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
The film, winsome and tragic at once and finely attuned to the rhythms of childhood, always seems quite close to real life.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Kore-eda is the most gifted of the young Japanese directors.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The rare film that successfully tells its tale of childhood from the children's point of view.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
Kore-eda balances a visually gritty realism -- the film itself has an almost palpably grainy look -- with unexpected lyrical notes.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It should come as no surprise that teenage actor Yagira won the acting prize at the Cannes film festival last year. Watching him, you'll feel like handing him the trophy yourself.
Slate
David Edelstein
Kore-eda's filmmaking is austere and deliberate, yet his humanism is manifest in every frame.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
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.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
The trouble is that with its lengthy running time Nobody Knows becomes grueling and drawn-out.
New Yorker
Anthony Lane
I certainly came out of Nobody Knows feeling numb; only later, reflecting on the fact that the movie was inspired by a true story, did it occur to me that the numbness could have been deliberate, and that what suffused this picture was a mist of anger.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
The movie's accumulation of little traumas and tiny victories sneaks to a climax that, however unsettling, doesn't upend the movie's alert, steadfast graces.
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
Akira reminds you of the children who have populated the films of Vittorio De Sica or Satyajit Ray, and, more unexpectedly, of the elderly Carlo Battisti in the title role of De Sica's Umberto D.
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