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Nobody Knows

Dare mo shiranai

2004

Hirokazu Koreeda

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

7.6

7,337

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.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There are moments in Yagira's performance that will break your heart (...) Rating; ★★★½ (ouf of 4)"	POS
United States	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"	POS
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"A delicate, lyrical testament to youthful resilience."	POS
United Kingdom	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)"	POS
United States	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"	POS
United States	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)"	POS
United Kingdom	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)"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Unforgettable (...) Subtly heartbreaking (...) Kore-eda's quasi-documentary style, give this movie a stunning credibility."	POS
United States	David Edelstein Slate	"Kore-eda's filmmaking is austere and deliberate, yet his humanism is manifest in every frame."	POS
United Kingdom	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)"	POS
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"[It] uses a painstaking semi-documentary method (...) to achieve an unusually intimate and natural atmosphere (...) Compassionate, intelligent filmmaking"	POS
United States	Jim Healy Chicago Reader	"[A] near masterpiece (...) [It] shows the joyful potential of a world without parents or teachers."	POS

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