The best actor prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival didn’t go to an international critics’ darling like Javier Bardem or Gael Garcia Bernal but to a 14-year-old boy named Yagira Yuya. His subtle, heartbreaking performance anchors Nobody Knows, the latest film by talented Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda. Inspired by events that occurred in late […]






