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Claudio C @Claudio666 Dec 8 Fight for Survival (12,115 – 17 Dec 2007 / 08 Dec 2025) In Tokyo, the reckless single mother Keiko moves to a small apartment with her twelve years old son Akira Fukushima and his siblings Kyoko, Shigeru and Yuki. The children have different fathers and do not have schooling, but they have a happy life with their mother. When Keiko finds a new boyfriend, she leaves the children alone, giving some money to Akira and assigning him to take care of his siblings. When the money finishes, Akira manages to find means to survive with the kids. "Dare mo Shiranai", a.k.a "Nobody Knows", is a sensitive movie based on a true story. The performances of the children are amazing, highlighting Yûya Yagira, and the drama is developed in a slow but suitable pace. The direction is effective and the music score is adequate. The open conclusion is disappointing, since it does not bring any message. It seems that life goes on only. My vote is eight. Title (Brazil): "Ninguém Pode Saber" ("Nobody Can Know") See more Madam D @Madam1948 Oct 17 Extremely sad to watch this little family have to deal with life on their own. The child actors were all quite talented. Hard to believe it is based on a true story. See more Eze Q @RT81694140 11/16/2024 It could have been a bit shorter, excellent movie See more hamid reza g @RT65196532 04/10/2023 An admirable film with very beautiful plans and a perceptive director who has been able to create realism with a film. The film is very effective with few dialogues but with strong images and little and wise music. The film is in praise of childhood and the story of four children who become victims in an irresponsible and passive world. Although the story of the film is sad, the strength of the film is that it is full of effort, sacrifice and hope. At the end of the film, the image shows the four children happily going home after shopping, and the image is fixed. Although the director wants to make us think of children and childhood, I personally like the movement of children in the depth of the picture towards the future. The movie should be seen and enjoyed. See more william d @acsdoug 12/16/2022 There's no conclusion here, no redemption, just four kids living in misery for 2+ hours. Judging by its high RT score many people find that poignant and compelling. I just found it depressing. See more Alvise F @RT35598906 05/22/2022 Inspired by 1988 news story "Sugamo child abandonment case", Kore-eda openly denounces a social issue that has been hidden for too long. He leaves out the dark and gloomy nature of the incident (that includes a rape), creating a delicate and mature film transposition more involved, closer and intimate compared to the previous works. An example of this direction are the more frequent medium shots and close-ups. Core of the story is the individualism and infantilism of adults, the indifference of society, the lack of empathy and "humanism" ("jindōshugi" 人道主義). As in previous works, we find also the Japanese aesthetics of "mono no aware" (物の哀れ), that enhances the "pathos of things", or rather, the "empathy toward things". Some examples are the fingernail polish that symbolize the maternity, but also the plants as growth and return to nature. It is precisely in this return to primitivism that the four brothers find a way to survive on the edges of society, ignored by all. However, children never lose their dignity, even in the face of the toughest tragedy. Materialistic and frivolous adults, like the mother and her lovers or the alleged fathers and gambling, are completely in contrast to the naive nature of the protagonists, eternal misfits, but in their purity of soul, honest and right, totally alien to contemporary Japanese society. See more Read all reviews

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