[Japanese] Nobody Knows - Hirokazu Koreeda

Subject: [Japanese] Nobody Knows - Hirokazu Koreeda Fri Jun 12, 2009 2:29 am

Nobody Knows
From Hirokazu Koreeda

[Japanese] Nobody Knows - Hirokazu Koreeda Nobody_Knows_movie2

Quote :: In Tokyo, the reckless single mother Keiko moves to a small apartment with her twelve years old son Akira Fukushima and hidden in the luggage, 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 youngsters without power supply, gas or water at home, and with the landlord asking for the rental.

[Japanese] Nobody Knows - Hirokazu Koreeda Thimdbci6

Slow and quite long but very nice and sad! Beautiful moving story, full of humanity and Touching yess

this one is (based on a) true story

Quote :: Actual event

Compared with the film's version of the story, the actual events of the "Affair of the four abandoned children of Sugamo" upon which the movie is based were far more grisly.

Originally, the mother had five children, two boys and three girls. The younger boy (born in 1984) died from an illness shortly after birth, but because none of the five children officially existed (she had asked the father of the oldest son to register them for marriage, as well as register him for birth; he did neither, causing the mother to not register any of the other kids), she wrapped the body up in some plastic sheets with some deodorizer and hid it in a closet.

When she left her children to live with her new lover, the oldest boy was around 14, and he had three younger sisters, aged 7, 3, and 2.

The older boy took to bringing over two friends ("A" and "B" in the report) he'd made, but these two other boys were much more brutal than the characters depicted in the film. Ultimately, one of them (B) became angry at the two-year-old girl for eating a bowl of ramen he'd brought over, and beat her up, ultimately killing her.

The oldest son and friend (A) packed the body up and took it to some mountains nearby, and buried it in a shallow grave. This was in April 1988.

In July of that year the landlord finally realized that the apartment seemed to be occupied only by children, and called the police, who found the two remaining girls badly malnourished. Searching the apartment, they discovered the corpse that the mother had hidden. Authorities later found the body of the youngest daughter near Chichibu City.

The story was covered very heavily by the mass media; and the mother, seeing this on the news, wondered if it were all about her children, and turned herself in to the police within a week of the children's discovery.

The eldest boy was not in the room when his sister was killed, but suspected that it was friend (B). Criminal charges were brought against the eldest boy, but they were later dropped. The children's true names were never released to the media.

The mother spent 3 years in prison with an additional 4 years of probation after release. She eventually regained custody of her two surviving daughters following her release.

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