JICC Presents "Nobody Knows"
The acclaimed movie “Nobody Knows” -- “誰も知らない” -- a film by Hirokazu Koreeda, will be shown at the Japan Information and Culture Center on Wednesday, December 13, 2006 at 6:30 P.M.
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 twelve year-old 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 the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses. Their innocent longing for their mother, their wary fascination towards 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.
Based on true events that shocked Japan, this story of abandoned siblings is a "harrowing, tender film" (The New York Times) that "unfolds with leisurely beauty" (LA Weekly). Filmed over a year and featuring a performance by 12-year-old Yagira Yuya that won the Best Actor prize at the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival (first Japanese and youngest winner ever), this "haunting" (Newsday) tale is "heartbreakingly brilliant" (The Boston Globe).
Reservations required, admission is free.
Please email: jiccrsvpfall06@embjapan.org for reservations
The Japan Information and Culture Center is located at 1155 21st Street NW.
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 twelve year-old 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 the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses. Their innocent longing for their mother, their wary fascination towards 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.
Based on true events that shocked Japan, this story of abandoned siblings is a "harrowing, tender film" (The New York Times) that "unfolds with leisurely beauty" (LA Weekly). Filmed over a year and featuring a performance by 12-year-old Yagira Yuya that won the Best Actor prize at the 2004 Cannes International Film Festival (first Japanese and youngest winner ever), this "haunting" (Newsday) tale is "heartbreakingly brilliant" (The Boston Globe).
Reservations required, admission is free.
Please email: jiccrsvpfall06@embjapan.org for reservations
The Japan Information and Culture Center is located at 1155 21st Street NW.
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