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Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers and have never been to school. The very existence of three of them has been hidden f...( read more 
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MCT:June 16, 2008
This movie is so sad and the event that it is based on is even sadder. how can a mother abandon her children to go live with her boyfriend?!?!
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MCT:May 11, 2008Una madre que sigue siendo una niña y un niño (Akira) que se debe convertir en un adulto de la noche a la mañana. Una triste pero hermosa historia sobre cuatro hermanos abandonados que deben aprender a sobrevivir. Emocionante y con grandes actuaciones... Amo esta pelicula con todo mi ser D:!
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MCT:April 7, 2008
Bewildering story. Such a sad destiny of those children. Amazing camera shots and great acting of the young kids! A very fascinating movie with a mysterious open end.
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MCT:March 30, 2008soo depressing. i told my jap. professor that the mom seemed to have a mental problem, seisinbyo. She said, NO! It depicts social problem of the society! yeah... whatever..the mom is just crazy to me!
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MCT:March 12, 2008
Very loosely based on the on the Japanese incident known as the "Affair of Four Abanonded Children of Sugamo", this movie follows the story of four children that are abandoned by their mother and try to survive on their own. Four kids, all under the age of 14, trying to survive in Tokyo.
For the average American audience this movie is NOT an easy piece to sit and watch. This movie features little dialogue and has many long shots of characters taking long moments of just looking at something around them. (In Japanese cinema this type of action is meant to show that the character is entering a deep reflective stage, or something along those lines. Either way, it's not easily identifiable to American audiences.)
Once a viewer overcomes this it will be hard not to become emotionally involved in the characters... at least for most people. Commonly some people will cry at their plight while others may react angrily. I was in the angry camp.
Another drawback is the considerable time of the movie, which is a whopping 2 hrs and 21 minutes so you have a long time to wait for the "catastrophic climax" that you know is just coming. (I spent the better part of the movie waiting for it actually.) When it does the sensative viewers out there will want to grab their tissues. For the angry camp your desire for retribution may be left wanting since the movie doesn't tell the audience what actually happened to the children or if the mother in this case was held responsible. (In other words, get your research on.)
All in all, its an interesting child story about the will to survive and how a family of four children react to their environment and to each other.
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r46jkfhmjposted 330 days ago
