
07 Aug 2004

Nobody Knows
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

Mio is 20 years old. Having lost her parents early, she and her grandmother run a traditional inn in Nagano. However, her grandmother gets sick. Mio moves to Tokyo and lives with her father’s best friend, Kyosuke. He runs a public bath. She begins to work at the public bath, but it is scheduled to be demolished to make way for redevelopment.

Mio Miyakawa

Ginji Ogata

Makoto Shimamura

Toshihito Arai

Yuu Iseki

Kyosuke Misawa

Kuniko Miyakawa

Jasmine


Kina Ishida


Manager

Nanami Ueno

Public Bath Customer


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