Word: koreeda
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...Cheung, at least, was there to receive her prize. The Best Actor was not. He was back home, in Tokyo, taking exams at his junior high school. At 14, Yuuya Yagira, star of Hirokazu Koreeda's poignant real-life fable Nobody Knows, is the youngest recipient of the award, and he deserved it. He plays the eldest of four children abandoned by their mother and left to survive without a social safety net. They do so with a calm, desperate resourcefulness that implicitly condemns Japan's welfare system and makes it clear that, in this family, the younger generation...