Nobody Knows Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Feb. 1, 2012

Nobody Knows

Release Date: Friday, February 11, 2005

Hiei Kimura, You, Yuichi Kimura, Ryo Kase, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Hirokazu Koreeda, Susumu Terajima, Yûya Yagira, Momoko Shimizu, Yukiko Okamoto, Ayu Kitaura, Hanae Kan, Kazumi Kushida, Kenichi Endo, Sei Hiraizumi

PG-13 Drama 2 hrs, 21 m

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Plot

What's the story about?

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.

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Nobody Knows.

Y
Yûya Yagira
A
Ayu Kitaura
H
Hiei Kimura
M
Momoko Shimizu
H
Hanae Kan
Y
You
K
Kazumi Kushida
Y
Yukiko Okamoto
Returner
S
Sei Hiraizumi
R
Ryo Kase
Letters from Iwo Jima, Restless
Y
Yuichi Kimura
K
Kenichi Endo

Crew Behind the Film

The Nobody Knows behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's writer Hirokazu Koreeda last wrote Still Walking.

Director: —
Screenwriter: Hirokazu Koreeda
Producer: Hirokazu Kore-eda

Studios: Magnolia Pictures; Myriad Pictures
Production Companies

Additional Information

MPA Rating: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for mature thematic elements, and some sexual references
Runtime: 2 hrs, 21 m
Tagline: Not available
Also known as: Dare Mo Shiranai
Language: English