AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This film is SO beautiful. Love pours from it and flows through it. It touches on so many important subjects and raises so many questions about what's morally right and wrong. The little kids, Shota and Yuri/Lin are the heart of this film, their mum Yoko is the soul, but every character earned such a special place in my heart, they were all written with so much care and attention and softness. I definitely need to rewatch again because it being spoken in a language I don't understand, even if with the aid of subtitles, there's a lot of meaning that gets lost and this film is particularly filled with it. The last two scenes will stay on my mind for days to come I'm sure of it, and that's when I know a movie should go straight to my favourites list.

9.7/10

From a certain aspect it is a fable about every coin has two sides or in other words nothing is fully black or white. The members of this family make dubious things in order to be able to eat, drink, wash themselves etc. or shortly to survive.

The perfect example which embodies this theory is the stoyline of _Yuri_. On the one hand, we can look at this like they kidnapped a child and later on taught her how to steal. On the other hand, they took a little girl in who was neglected by her parents. They looked after her, nurtured and cared for her and she became a member of this family who has nothing much but thenselves and they appreciate that little what they got. As _Yuri_ was got back to her birth parents by the authorities she is treated like a pain in the ass by her mother. So, I ask the question: which family made her bad example exactly?

They give each other home, love and eventually an opportunity to the children to break out from that poor life situation.

This movie was truly devastating.

Hirokazu Koreeda is a master of cinema.

I'm still digesting this movie but I'm pretty sure it's one of the best of 2018. It is an absolute gem. A superb tale of love, kinship and what it means to be family. Morals are queried, and formalities are tested. Lily Franky, Sakura Andô and those 2 children are impeccable. The dialogue and characters are perfect.

Beautiful, beautiful cinema.

Spectacular movie. Highly recommended. Those who love Japan without being there should watch this movie and take a reality bath.

Typical Koreeda movie: capturing calm scenes in perfection, making the viewer feel like he is in the middle of the presented characters, having a kind of weird, sad & yet happy feeling at the same time.

Still, "Nobody Knows" is more memorable, was based on a true happening and had been released 14 years earlier.

Koreeda deserves any price, but more for his entire filmography. His works were always close to be considered as a masterpiece. Except "Nobody Knows", because it is one.

The kind of film that gets under your skin, permeates your soul, and then steals your heart. Highly recommended.

The original title of the film is Manbiki kazoku.

The realness and the bond of family in a way are that truly amazing, I was moved by this movie and the trueness in life.

Ruminations on the essence of family with a scrappy group of bottom-feeders, discarded and neglected by society at large. Living well below the poverty line, stealing what they can't afford, their household exists on the outskirts of civilization; a phantom in more ways than one. The general population is perfectly happy to turn a blind eye upon the situation and this ragtag, close-knit little unit is content with the same arrangement, despite the guarded air of closeted secrets looming over the household.

It's the kind of film you know probably doesn't end well, so you just enjoy the good times while they last. The movie itself seems to feel the same way, lingering in those sweet moments of quiet memory and cozy togetherness for as long as it can, delaying the inevitable. Of course, eventually something has to give, and then it's a crushing landslide of sudden public interest and consequence, hitting all the harder for the delicate harmony that existed, so freely, prior to the vortex.

Heartfelt and thoughtful, with a stirring message and no true heroes or villains; just people, doing what they think is right, no matter how misguided that might seem from another angle.