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Tokyo Godfathers |  | Directors: Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya
Actors: Toru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto, Shôzô Îzuka, Seizô Katô
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  68 reviews
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Animated, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 043396028142
ISBN: 1404946918
UPC: 043396028142
EAN: 9781404946910
Release Date: April 13, 2004
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Product Description
Three homeless friends find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve and try to locate her parents.
Amazon.com
Satoshi Kon's third feature (following Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress) confirms his status as one of the most interesting directors working in anime. Tokyo Godfathers centers on three homeless people: Hana, a flamboyant ex-drag entertainer; Gin, an alcoholic former bicycle racer; and Miyuki, a sullen teenage runaway. Their tenuous existence becomes more chaotic when they set out to find the parents of an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. They scream insults as they confront the lies they've told each other--and themselves--about the past. Yet they remain curiously endearing and even noble. All three care passionately about the abandoned infant, and they love each other, although they're loath to admit it. Kon skillfully uses color to suggest the bitter winter cold and the characters' alienation. Tokyo Godfathers shows that battling the inner demons that led these three characters to skid row can be a more daunting challenge than fighting aliens and cyborgs. (Rated PG-13: profanity, violence, tobacco and alcohol use) --Charles Solomon
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 68
 An AMAZING movie. A good movie for any time of the year and will make you feel good deep down inside. June 21, 2010
Dannie Rasdale (Pelzer, S.C USA)
A down right feel good movie. Three homeless folks find a baby in the dump on Christmas Eve night. They soon have to decide to take care of it, or turn it in. I won't spoil anything for you, but it becomes much bigger then that. The animation is nicely done, the music will keep you humming it even after the movie is over. The story just down right makes you feel good inside. I will definitely be showing my kids this movie, I've already shown my friends. A movie for all ages to watch and agree on.
Terrific Anime Film May 26, 2010
AngelDove (Long Island, NY)
The only thing that bothers me about this film is that it is sub-titled in English instead of dubbed in English. Anime purists will tell you that subtitles are the only proper way to view anime, but I dislike hobbies with "have to" rules and I prefer well-performed dubbing (which is not so unusual these days). This film, either version, is a charming story about three homeless men who discover an abandoned child at Christmas time. Sound like "Three Men and a Baby" to you? Yeah, me too. But don't let that stop you from enjoying the unique take on the storyline and the beautifully presented artwork. It's a film for teens or older but is totally appropriate with a tender meaning. Characters are well-drawn and well-drawn (if you know what I mean). A keeper in your anime collection. More so, if you're a fan of Satoshi Kon's work.
YOU GOTTA BUY THIS April 13, 2010
A. Rangel (So Cal, USA)
I'm so glad to see so many others really enjoyed this movie as much as i did. This movie was not an action movie or wowed you with over the top anything, it simply captivates with the story and characters and makes you love it, i sure did. This is easily one of my favorite animes. If your thinking of getting this,dont think, just get it.
 Street Angels April 8, 2010
Keris Nine
I don't know why - it's probably the title - but I've always had the impression that Tokyo Godfathers was an animated Japanese gangster film. I should have known better than expect something so prosaic and predictable from a director like Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress). There are yakuza gangsters involved here, but only as one of the background elements that the director makes use of in this entertaining Christmas tale journey through the backstreets of Tokyo, when three down-and-outs find an abandoned baby in an alley on Christmas Eve and set off in search of its mother.
Even that old story, played out and parodied in many comedy movies, is given a rather different spin by Satoshi Kon - one of the very best directors working in Japanese animated features - starting off with the main characters. "A bum, a homo, a runaway and a foundling" is how homeless alcoholic Gin describes their odd little family unit, and there's a lot of fun to be found in such a gathering, as well as a little bit of self-reflection and sentimentality. And sure why not? It's a Christmas setting and inevitably, confronted with a baby left out on the streets, it's going to remind them of their own families and going to think about their own position, the chances they have lost and the lives that none of them will ever have again.
What's wonderful about Tokyo Godfathers however - and why it's an animated film rather than a regular live-action comedy-drama - is the fine detail that can be added to the characterisation and the exaggeration that can be indulged without it seeming unnaturalistic and out of place. Here, movements can be paced and coordinated, expressions perfectly thought through for what they reveal about the characters, and they are animated as ever with supreme precision. Satoshi Kon does perhaps manoeuvre events a little too smoothly and schematically here in this particular film, but it flows wonderfully and is full of wit and entertainment.
Grandest Story Ever Told March 6, 2010
Gulf War Vet (Denver, CO)
The serious side of anime never ceases to amaze. From the director of "Perfect Blue" comes a Christmas story which is full of personal introspection, twists and turns. The character development is excellent. Gin's tragic trail of alcholism, the young girls adolescent frustration with her home life that has driven her to the streets, and the dreams and the hopes of a transvestite who wants from the world what her body cannot give. These persons come to peace with this personal strife by trying to find the parents of a baby they found while rummaging in the trash.
It's a triumph.
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