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In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people’s lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches, these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of the abandoned child and the fate of her parents. Along the way, encounters with seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts, as they learn to face their future, together. (Source: Shout! Factory) Note: The film received an early premiere at the Big Apple Anime Fest on August 30, 2003.
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Satoshi Kon is widely considered an auteur of bizarre masterpieces. Perfect Blue, Paprika, and Millennium Actress are all strange, high-concept films to varying degrees. However, Tokyo Godfathers might somehow be his oddest film. This isn't due to the film taking the concepts of blurring reality and…
Read full review on AniList →~~~__Depicting Realism in a Christmas Film__~~~ ~~~img380(https://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9m82olNdF1qeegr5o1_1280.jpg)~~~ Ahhh, the Christmas season. It's that time of the year when you can spend time with your family and enjoy the festivities that come with the season. It's also the best time…
Read full review on AniList →It’s been said that family isn’t always something you’re born into... Sometimes, it’s found, and sometimes in the strangest places. For middle aged outcast Gin, transgendered widow Hana and runaway teenager Miyuki, the family they’d formed was all they had... Until they found out that fate had pl…
Read full review on AniList →Satoshi Kon é conhecido como um diretor que adora criar suas histórias pautando o surreal, fantasioso e qualquer coisa que toque no sentimento mais fora da caixinha possível. Porém, mesmo com essa maestria no fazer um tanto quanto "irreal" em seus visuais ou até em suas narrativas de certa forma, em…
Read full review on AniList →This film is ******* crazy. I've seen this one before but I was still left completely shocked by the end of it like my first watch-through. This movie is insanely dramatic and it gets really dark, yet it's also a comedy. It whips you in so many different directions and drops so much information on y…
Read full review on AniList →Tokyo Godfathers is a comedy-drama anime film about three homeless friends who find an abandoned baby as they were rummaging through trash and this is a great set-up which leads to an effective payoff which is also immensely hilarious. This is a film which feels quite fast-paced, but there are momen…
Read full review on AniList →Tokyo Godfathers is a funny little paradox of a movie. On the one hand, it’s possibly the most unusual entry in Satoshi Kon’s body of work. On the other hand, it’s so unusual precisely because it’s not unusual at all. There are no reality-bending twists at play here, no dreamscapes that overtake the…
Read full review on AniList →~~~_The following is posed to be a subjective review without any intent of inputting constructive insight. Despite my lack of intent, I’ll try my best to thoroughly examine the film as constructively as possible. Expect an update to this review after I visit more Satoshi Kon titles. At the time of t…
Read full review on AniList →Christmas is among the most popular holidays. One way that this manifests is through film — Christmas has more movies than other holidays. Because of this, Christmas movies often follow the same beats. I love Christmas, so I don’t scoff at the tropes. Still, I like to keep things fresh and watch mor…
Read full review on AniList →Satoshi Kon es una de las metes más brillantes dentro de la industria y no tengo que explicar el porqué. Ver cualquiera de sus obras remarca su extrema creatividad a la hora de narrar sus historias, pero hay una excepción estas, ya que Kon dirigiría una película algo normal ambientada en la navidad,…
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