Asian Cinema Archive on Instagram: "Hirokazu Koreeda had been thinking about adapting the story behind Nobody Knows for nearly fifteen years. Over that time, his view of the incident shifted, as did his relationship to Akira. “I felt that my position was that of someone standing next to that boy, and maybe occasionally giving him some encouragement, a pat on the shoulders. Not a hug, because if you hug someone, you can’t see what they are seeing. Not an embrace either, because an embrace is too