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SYNOPSIS __________
Plot:
*Official Selection:
2004 Cannes Film Festival
*Cannes' Winner- Best Actor, Yuuya Yagira (14 years old)
Japan's entry to the 2004 Academy Awards
Hirokazu Kore-eda, the director of "Maborosi" and
"After-life," presents this exceptional story of
a makeshift family of children left to survive in an urban
jungle.
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 his younger siblings. And so begins the children’s
odyssey, a journey nobody knows.
Despite their mother's abandonment, the four children do
their best to survive in their own little world, devising
and following their own set of rules. But when they have no
choice but to engage with the world outside the apartment,
the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses.
Kore-eda incorporated documentary techniques to makes this
film extraordinarily intimate and unaffected. Filmed chronologically
over a year, "Nobody Knows" captures the young amateur
actors growing as their characters do, highlighting the details
of the children’s lives, whether the nuances of a manicure,
a toy piano, squeaking sandals, a cup of instant noodles,
or a box of chocolates, to evoke not only the distinctive
world of these particular abandoned children, but the gentleness
and beauty of every childhood.
DETAILS__________
Studio:
IFC Films (USA)
ARP Selection (France)
Celluloid Dreams (world sales)
Release Date:
Aug, 25, 2004 (Japan)
Nov. 10, 2004 (France)
Jan. 28, 2005 (Limited / USA)
RELATED LINKS__________
MISC INFO (Cannes Film Fest.)
festival-cannes.fr --- CLICK
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