NOBODY KNOWS / LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

ABOUT THE FILMS:

NOBODY KNOWS, 2004, Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 141 Mins, IFC Films, Japan

In Japanese with English subtitles.

Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord. One day, the mother leaves behind a little money and a note, asking her 12-year-old boy to look after the others. And so begins the children’s odyssey, a journey nobody knows.

FORMAT: DCP

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, 2013, Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 121 Mins, IFC Films, Japan

In Japanese with English subtitles.

Would you choose your natural child, or the one you believed was your own during six years together? Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with another incredibly touching family drama, winner of the Jury Prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Following an unexpected phone call, affluent architect Ryota and his wife, Midori, learn that their six-year-old son, Keita, was switched at the hospital and is not their biological child. Seeing Midori’s devotion to Keita even after the news, and observing the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota begins to question his own values on fatherhood as he must choose between ‘nature’ and ‘nurture,’ a decision that will change their lives forever.

FORMAT: DCP

Co-presented by JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles