Nobody Knows
*yawns audibly*
I don't like this day. I don't like my BOB ceo. I don't like it just because he's a 102 student he's considered super smart. I don't like him. I don't like him wanting to give us warning letter for that MCQs unsubmitted while he was the one who came one hour late to lecture and didn't come at all for the group meeting with lecturer, thus giving a bad impression towards our group. And why the fuck did he construct the 3 subgroups system if he's still giving out work not according to the groups? I'm fucking tired and things pisses me off in multitudes. But it's okay. I know how to be professional, I can work with the people I dislike. I just wish this sem ends quickly so that I don't have to work with someone who thinks he's all that and won't listen to other's opinion to make work more efficient.
ANYWAYS....
I've been meaning to talk about this movie for days. There's this movie that I'm looking for, that I don't mind paying money for as long as it's of quality sub. Daremo Shiranai is a powerful 2004 Japanese movie made by acclaimed director Koreeda Hirokazu, in a docu-drama fictionalized retelling of the infamous child abandonment case that scandalized Japan in the late 1980s. Daremo Shiranai translates to Nobody Knows, and follows the life of four siblings, surviving urban Tokyo after one day, abandoned by their young, carefree, youthful, irresponsible mother with little money and a note asking the eldest son Akira, 12 played by non-professional Yuya Yagira to take care of the younger siblings. Oh, I forgot to mention that the mother, Keiko was never a good caretaker even in her presence. Plus, all 4 children are fathered by different men. Else than that, the existence of the 3 younger kids are kept a secret from the landlord and the kids had to be smuggled into the apartment in suitcases! Only the eldest is allowed to step out of the house, the rest of them are not allowed to go to school and...anywhere else!
Okay, I can't really talk about it as if I've watched it. But the synopses is enough to get you intrigued, the tale of brotherly love that turns a 12 year old eldest brother to a father to his siblings is surely enough to pull some strings in you. The struggle of 4 siblings living alone in the Tokyo megalopolis, and urban jungle where one can't be bothered to notice the plight of these little kids neglected not only by their mom but by the society itself. The sacrifices that a mother couldn't make for her children in contrast to the sacrifices a brother could make instead for his siblings. Koreeda’s storytelling here is quiet and dreamlike, as much a testament to the resiliency of children as the horror of abandonment. Their childhood innocence and joys are preserved almost as though they are oblivious to their own situation, which makes it even more heart-wrenching to watch.
I've read reviews, and I haven't found even ONE that thinks this is a sucky dumb movie.
Reviews include words like "excellent movie, devastatingly poignant, disturbing and powerful, and powerfully tragic".
It's a critics pick of New York Times and received a 4.5 out of 5 rating from reviewers, rated 100% Awesome at eFilm Critic.
It's an OFFICIAL SELECTION at 2004 Chicago Film Festival, 2004 Vancouver Film Festival, 2004 Toronto Film Festival, 2004 Mill Valley Film Festival and 2005 Palm Springs Film Festival. Plus, the main leading actor of this movie, fresh and unprofessional 14 year-old Yuya Yagira became the youngest actor to win the Best Actor Award in the history of Cannes when he won the award in 2004. Cannes, I'm telling you!
I really really really really want to watch this movie. I've searched high and low in case somebody shared it. But it's no Batman Begins, Mr and Mrs Smith or Fantastic Four so the chances are pretty low. *sigh*
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I don't like this day. I don't like my BOB ceo. I don't like it just because he's a 102 student he's considered super smart. I don't like him. I don't like him wanting to give us warning letter for that MCQs unsubmitted while he was the one who came one hour late to lecture and didn't come at all for the group meeting with lecturer, thus giving a bad impression towards our group. And why the fuck did he construct the 3 subgroups system if he's still giving out work not according to the groups? I'm fucking tired and things pisses me off in multitudes. But it's okay. I know how to be professional, I can work with the people I dislike. I just wish this sem ends quickly so that I don't have to work with someone who thinks he's all that and won't listen to other's opinion to make work more efficient.
ANYWAYS....
I've been meaning to talk about this movie for days. There's this movie that I'm looking for, that I don't mind paying money for as long as it's of quality sub. Daremo Shiranai is a powerful 2004 Japanese movie made by acclaimed director Koreeda Hirokazu, in a docu-drama fictionalized retelling of the infamous child abandonment case that scandalized Japan in the late 1980s. Daremo Shiranai translates to Nobody Knows, and follows the life of four siblings, surviving urban Tokyo after one day, abandoned by their young, carefree, youthful, irresponsible mother with little money and a note asking the eldest son Akira, 12 played by non-professional Yuya Yagira to take care of the younger siblings. Oh, I forgot to mention that the mother, Keiko was never a good caretaker even in her presence. Plus, all 4 children are fathered by different men. Else than that, the existence of the 3 younger kids are kept a secret from the landlord and the kids had to be smuggled into the apartment in suitcases! Only the eldest is allowed to step out of the house, the rest of them are not allowed to go to school and...anywhere else!
Okay, I can't really talk about it as if I've watched it. But the synopses is enough to get you intrigued, the tale of brotherly love that turns a 12 year old eldest brother to a father to his siblings is surely enough to pull some strings in you. The struggle of 4 siblings living alone in the Tokyo megalopolis, and urban jungle where one can't be bothered to notice the plight of these little kids neglected not only by their mom but by the society itself. The sacrifices that a mother couldn't make for her children in contrast to the sacrifices a brother could make instead for his siblings. Koreeda’s storytelling here is quiet and dreamlike, as much a testament to the resiliency of children as the horror of abandonment. Their childhood innocence and joys are preserved almost as though they are oblivious to their own situation, which makes it even more heart-wrenching to watch.
I've read reviews, and I haven't found even ONE that thinks this is a sucky dumb movie.
Reviews include words like "excellent movie, devastatingly poignant, disturbing and powerful, and powerfully tragic".
It's a critics pick of New York Times and received a 4.5 out of 5 rating from reviewers, rated 100% Awesome at eFilm Critic.
It's an OFFICIAL SELECTION at 2004 Chicago Film Festival, 2004 Vancouver Film Festival, 2004 Toronto Film Festival, 2004 Mill Valley Film Festival and 2005 Palm Springs Film Festival. Plus, the main leading actor of this movie, fresh and unprofessional 14 year-old Yuya Yagira became the youngest actor to win the Best Actor Award in the history of Cannes when he won the award in 2004. Cannes, I'm telling you!
I really really really really want to watch this movie. I've searched high and low in case somebody shared it. But it's no Batman Begins, Mr and Mrs Smith or Fantastic Four so the chances are pretty low. *sigh*
Download Trailer