enda
Film

Dare mo shiranai

Hirokazu Koreeda, Japan, 2004

141 min.Feature

Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers and 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, charging her oldest boy to look after the others. And so begins the children's odyssey, a journey nobody knows. Though engulfed by the cruel fate of abandonment, the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising and following their own set of rules. When they are forced to engage with the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses. Their innocent longing for their mother, their wary fascination toward the outside world, their anxiety over their increasingly desperate situation, their inarticulate cries, their kindness to each other, their determination to survive on wits and courage.
Basic information Credits Materials
Original title Dare mo shiranai
Danish title Nobody knows
Director Hirokazu Koreeda
Screenplay Hirokazu Koreeda
Director of Photography Yutaka Yamasaki
Editor Hirokazu Koreeda
Composer Gontiti
Production designer Toshihiro Isomi, Keiko Mitsumatsu
Appearance Yûya Yagira, Ayu Kitaura, Hiei Kimura
Production country Japan
Domestic distribution Øst for Paradis
Technical info 35 mm, color
Danish theatrical release 23.03.2005
Cinemas Kino (Roskilde), Bio (Silkeborg), Grand, Biffen (Aalborg), Øst for Paradis (Århus)
Find more Variety Vol CCCXCV, nr 1 (May 17, 2004), p 25, 26
Danish rating Allowed for children over the age of 11
Download PDF

Companies

Production company TV Man Union
Domestic distribution Øst for Paradis

Direction

Direction Hirokazu Koreeda

Script

Script Hirokazu Koreeda

Production

Production Hirokazu Koreeda

Cinematography

Cinematography Yutaka Yamasaki

Editing

Editing Hirokazu Koreeda

Music

Music Gontiti

Production design

Production design Toshihiro Isomi
Production design Keiko Mitsumatsu

Appearance

Akira Yûya Yagira
Kyoko Ayu Kitaura
Shigeru Hiei Kimura

Download PDF

Reviews and articles

On the library you can find these articles and revies and other material about the film.
Type Source Author Date
Program - stumfilm & mikro
Download PDF