Home Alone; Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Latest Film Sets Him Further Apart.

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It shouldn't be surprising that Kore-eda's Nobody Knows-about a quartet of underage siblings left to fend for themselves when their mom goes off to work one day and never comes back-would prove yet another departure for the director. Though still grounded in Kore-eda's extensive documentary background and suffused with an almost vérité attention to all manner of spontaneous behaviors and naturalistic details, Nobody Knows is radical precisely for being so emotionally accessible, so thoroughly unashamed of its altogether mainstream appeal. It's the least likely movie Kore-eda could have made: fearlessly, even recklessly melodramatic at heart.

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Home Alone; Hirokazu Kore-Eda's Latest Film Sets Him Further Apart.

Some critics have united the disparate directors of the "New Japanese New Wave"-Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer), Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure), and Takeshi Kitano (Zatoichi)-acc...

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