Nobody Knows (誰も知らない; Dare mo shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The movie is based on a 1988 event best known as the "Affair of the four abandoned children of Sugamo". The story is about four children, each a child by a different father, abandoned by their mother. They are then forced to survive on their own.
Compared with the film's version of the story, the actual events of the "Affair of the four abandoned childre...
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Nobody Knows (誰も知らない; Dare mo shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The movie is based on a 1988 event best known as the "Affair of the four abandoned children of Sugamo". The story is about four children, each a child by a different father, abandoned by their mother. They are then forced to survive on their own.
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. Because none of the five children were registered (she had asked the father of the oldest son to register them for marriage, as well as register his birth; he did neither, causing the mother to not register any of the others), she wrapped her dead son in some plastic sheets with some deodorizer and hid him in a closet.
When she left her...
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