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Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment in Tokyo. The children all have different fathers. They 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.

Though engulfed by the cruel fate of abandonment, the four children do their best to survive in their own little world, devising and following their own set of rules. When they are forced to engage with the world outside their cocooned universe, the fragile balance that has sustained them collapses.

Director:

Hirokazu Koreeda [1],

Starring:

Screen Formats:

Widescreen

Subtitles:

English

Language and Sound:

Japanese Dolby Digital Stereo

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