Nobody Knows 2004 Film full HD movie download free with screenpaly story, dialogue LYRICS and STAR Cast

Nobody Knows tells the story of four siblings and their young mother who move into a small apartment in Tokyo. The film begins when the family is moving into a small rented apartment. Only the eldest, Akira is known to the landlord, while the youngest boy and girl, Shigeru and Yuki, hide in separate suitcases. The elder sister, Ky?ko, comes separately by train. All the children have different fathers. They are not allowed to go to school or to be seen by others, and only Akira is allowed to go outside. Yet, the family seems to be happy.

Things begin to change when their mother leaves home for a few months, leaving only a small amount of money for them. Then, Akira's rank in the family shifts overnight and he becomes the surrogate head of the family. They barely manage to scrape through life, with Akira having to ask money from Yuki's possible fathers. Luckily, their mother soon returns with gifts for the children.

However, their mother is not back for long. She tells Akira that she has a new boyfriend, and that after she gets married, the children can lead normal lives. She then leaves again, with the promise that she will be back for Christmas. She does not keep her promise, and Akira and Ky?ko have to play the role of parents. Akira soon finds out that she has already married and left them forever, though he does not tell the rest. Money soon becomes short, and they cannot afford to pay their rent. Their meals consist of instant cup noodles brought from the local mini-mart. On Yuki's birthday, she asks to go to the train to wait for their mother. Her mother does not appear, but on the way back, Akira promises Yuki that one day, he will bring take her on the Tokyo Monorail to see the airplanes take off at Haneda Airport.

Akira soon befriends two video-game loving boys who are his age. They frequently come to Akira's house to play video games, and Akira starts to neglect his siblings. Their ties become strained. Later, the two boys bring Akira to the mini-mart and dare him to shoplift. Akira refuses to do so and the two boys leave him. After that, Akira lets his siblings go outside and play at a park nearby. He also lets them visit the mini-mart and buy things they like.

As winter turns to spring, the bills have piled up and the phone, electric, gas, and water have all been turned off. They consequently must make use of the local park's public toilet to wash themselves, and the tap for their water. It is on one of these trips that Shigeru starts a conversation with a high school student, Saki, and this soon blossoms into a friendship between all of them. Saki frequently visits them and helps take care of them. However, when she offers to earn money to give to them by visiting a Karaoke lounge with a man, Akira distances himself from her, rejects the money she offers, and runs home.

Summer approaches, and money remains very tight. Suddenly, Yuki falls off a stool while trying to reach for something and dies. At that time, Akira was playing baseball. The children are shocked, and Akira has to go find Saki to borrow money in order to buy a dozen or so boxes of Yuki's favorite chocolate candies which are then placed with Yuki's dead body and stuffed bunny into a suitcase. Akira and Saki then take the Tokyo Monorail to an open field near Haneda Airport's runway and bury the suitcase containing Yuki in a hand-dug grave. The children's lives then go on as usual, and the film ends with Akira, Ky?ko, Shigeru, and Saki still together walking home.

• Y?ya Yagira as Akira Fukushima (???), the eldest son of Keiko. He is twelve years old. His father is a worker at Haneda Airport. He is also the person who becomes the surrogate head of the family, taking care of his siblings.
• Ayu Kitaura as Ky?ko Fukushima (????), the oldest daughter and the second eldest child of Keiko at eleven years old. Her father is a musician, and she dreams of owning an actual piano. She is in charge of such household chores as doing the laundry.
• Hiei Kimura as Shigeru Fukushima (???), the youngest son. He is very playful and the reason why they have had to move to their new apartment.
• Momoko Shimizu as Yuki Fukushima (????), the youngest child in the family. She is five years old, and nobody knows who is actually her biological father. She loves to draw and eat chocolate candies. She later dies after falling from a stool, and is buried near Haneda Airport's runway.
• Hanae Kan as Saki Mizuguchi (????), a high school student. She is a friend of the children, and frequently helps them.
• You as Keiko Fukushima (?????), the mother of the children. She leaves them to marry someone and never returns to see them afterward.
• Kazumi Kushida as Tadashi Yoshinaga (????), the landlord of the house
• Yukiko Okamoto as Eriko Yoshinaga (?????), the landlord's wife
• Sei Hiraizumi as the mini-market manager who mistook Akira as a shoplifter
• Ry? Kase as the mini-market employee. He gives Akira leftover sushi to bring home whenever Akira comes by the mini-market.
• Y?ichi Kimura as Sugihara, the taxi driver and a possible father of Yuki
• Kenichi End? as the Pachinko parlor employee and a possible father of Yuki
• Susumu Terajima as the baseball coach
• Takako Tate as the mini-market teller
• Y?ji Maeda
• Mari Hayashida

Development

According to the director Hirokazu Kore-eda, though Nobody Knows was inspired by the true story of the Sugamo child abandonment case, it is not a factual recounting, and only the settings and the ending of the story are based on the true story.

Hirokazu Kore-eda had drafted and revised several screenplays for over 15 years. He also spent a very long time getting to know his subjects, and wanted the young cast members to interact, grow, and express their personalities freely, with as little adult dictation as possible. He did not use the usual structuring and cueing methods, but instead uses a discreet camera to show how children really live when no one is looking. Also, when the director discovered the actress Momoko Shimizu who played Yuki liked Apollo Choco more than Strawberry Pocky as was in the script, he changed his script to suit that and made her smile brighter. He also opted not to make feel-good movie though it is the custom for Japanese films of this type, but instead choose to get rid of anything sentimental and become stoic. This is because he wanted the audience to "take away something" from the film.

Pre-production

The director Hirokazu Kore-eda held extensive auditions to cast the four children, and the actors were all nonprofessionals. Also, during the casting, a little girl came in with noisy sandals. The director liked it so much that he brought it over to Yuki's character when searching for her mother. He also did not give the children detailed explanations of their roles, because he wanted them to be natural.

Filming

The filming took over a year, lasting from autumn 2002 to summer 2003. The reel was filmed chronologically and 70% of the story was set in a cramped Tokyo apartment (with every room built specifically for the film). The apartment was specially rented for a year for the filming of this film, and the filming assistants lived in the apartment when it was not used for filming. Director Hirokazu Kore-eda said that during the long filming period, he tried to build a relationship of trust between himself and the children, and also amongst the children themselves. During the children's filming breaks, the children were asked to write in their own journal entries about what they were thinking, ranging from the film to their own everyday concerns.

Post-production

Nobody Knows held its first public screening at the Le Theatre in Ginza, Tokyo on June 30, 2004 after the film debuted at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.

Music

The soundtrack for the movie was written by the Japanese guitar duo Gontiti.

The ending song was sung by Takako Tate titled "H?seki".

Film festivals

Nobody Knows competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival on 12 May 2004.

Home media

The DVD for Nobody Knows was released in Japan on 11 March 2005. It was released in DVD (region 2) format, and it has both English and Japanese subtitles. Separately, the Making of Nobody Knows DVD, which contains 41 minutes' worth of film taken during the filming of Nobody Knows, was released on 23 December 2004.

Critical reception

Nobody Knows has received widespread acclaim from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 93%, based on 93 critics, with an average score of 8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Tragic and haunting, a beautifully heart-wrenching portrait of child abandonment." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 88 out of 100, with all 31 critics giving positive reviews.

The Japan Times gave the film a rating of four out of five. The reviewer Mark Schilling describes the film's young actors as "superb", and said that the film "faithfully reflects