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Nobody Knows

Dare mo shiranai

2004

Hirokazu Koreeda

Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura, Momoko Shimizu ...

7.6

7,358

Drama 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There are moments in Yagira's performance that will break your heart (...) Rating; ★★★½ (ouf of 4)"
		Derek Elley Variety	"Kore-eda sketches the inner, spiritual and emotional lives of the children with subtlety and sensitivity (...) Pic’s magic (...) lies in its offhand approach to details"
		Scott Tobias AV Club	"A delicate, lyrical testament to youthful resilience."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Kore-eda gets miraculously fresh performances from the children and the film is absorbing, humane and deeply moving (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		A. O. Scott The New York Times	"The content of 'Nobody Knows', which should consolidate his reputation as one of Japan's most interesting and original filmmakers, is inherently upsetting"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Confidently and maturely directed, 'Nobody Knows' is a film of serene composition whose graceful and emotional narrative takes the pulse of a nation through the tragedy of one family (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		David Parkinson Empire	"Rarely has a kid's-eye view of the adult world been captured with such innocence and insight (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Unforgettable (...) Subtly heartbreaking (...) Kore-eda's quasi-documentary style, give this movie a stunning credibility."
		David Edelstein Slate	"Kore-eda's filmmaking is austere and deliberate, yet his humanism is manifest in every frame."
		Jamie Russell BBC	"With just one principal location - a tiny apartment - and four non-professional child actors sharing the burden of the film's focus, it's a dazzling technical achievement (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Geoff Andrew Time Out	"[It] uses a painstaking semi-documentary method (...) to achieve an unusually intimate and natural atmosphere (...) Compassionate, intelligent filmmaking"
		Jim Healy Chicago Reader	"[A] near masterpiece (...) [It] shows the joyful potential of a world without parents or teachers."

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