Nobody Knows

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

2004 / 141min / DCP

Kore-eda’s masterful, heart-wrenching family drama, inspired by an actual 1988 incident of child abandonment, observes what happens to four young siblings when their single mother disappears in pursuit of a new romance, leaving the eldest, 12-year-old Akira (Yuya Yagira) to try to keep the household afloat with the sparse material resources—and deep reserves of feeling—at his command. “A harrowing, tender film… Explores nearly every emotional nuance and implication of the story without for an instant succumbing to sensationalism or melodrama.”—The New York Times

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