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Yagira.  Dare mo shiranai (2004)  Also known as “Nobody Knows” a
Japanese film by Hirokazu Koreeda. Starring 4 little children
left alone by their (terrible) mother, Keiko, after finding a
new boyfriend. She leaves the children alone, giving some money
to Akira and assigning him to take care of his siblings. So a
twelve year old boy, played perfectly by Yûya Yagira (who won at
the Cannes Film Festival category Best Actor!) has to take care
of everyone. We see the struggles the kids have, the incredible
responsibility the big brother, Akira, has and how it sometimes
just overwhelms him.  He buys grocery’s, does the laundry, has
to pay the bills and so on. But after the money is gone, he and
his siblings can’t afford to buy new things, and get what they
need from friends and neighbors. Sometimes his sibling or
friends ask, where his mother is, Akira always responds with,
she’s working in Osaka, and that she will be back soon, but the
mother abandone