If you are a moviegoer, you probably heard of Shoplifters(2018) or Our Little Sisters(2015), which were directed by the Cannes-winning Japanese director, Hirokazu Koreeda. Koreeda is the most gifted of the young Japanese directors. I watched his early work called Nobody Knows last weekend. The story revolves around an irresponsible mother and her four children. They are half-siblings, with each of them having different fathers. Because the three youngest children are in the apartment illegally without landlord’s permission, they cannot go outside or be seen in the apartment, and they do not go to the school, either. Their mother was blinded by love, leaving them alone for weeks and finally does not return. Akira Fukushima, the oldest child in the family, struggling to survive on their own. Koreeda pay meticulous attention to composition and camera placement. For instance, unlike action or horror movies consist of many ups and downs, the director use lots of simple shots to make audience feel the sorrow.   

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