Nobody Knows
Nobody Knows ★★½ Dare mo shiranai 2004 (PG-13)
Inspired by a true story that happened in 1988, Koreeda's overly-long drama follows the lives of four abandoned children. Irresponsible Keiko (You) smuggles her brood into a Tokyo apartment, refusing to let them attend school and giving them bizarre rules to follow so they won't be discovered. 12-year-old Akira (Yuya) is the de facto head of the family, especially when mom leaves a little cash and takes off with her latest boyfriend. Akira soon realizes she isn't returning and struggles to keep the family together under increasingly dire circumstances. Japanese with subtitles. 141m/C DVD . Yuya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Momoko Shimizu, Hanae Kan, Hiei Kimura; D: Hirokazu Koreeda; W: Hirokazu Koreeda; C: Yutaka Yamazaki; M: Gontiti.
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