There are plenty of supporting players that show up during the course of the film, but just about everything that happens in the movie occurs around the main protagonists. Tokyo Godfathers boasts a story that follows it’s main characters through event after dramatic event. As is common in most Satoshi Kon stories, violence and conflict soon follows and our characters practically have to go through hell to accomplish their ultimate goal of returning baby Kiyoko. Soon they are led down a path of discovery when they try to find the child’s parents.
Once the main characters named Miyuki, Gin and Hana find the child, they name it Kiyoko and begin to care for the baby as if it were their own. This certainly doesn’t sound like the typical Christmas movie, but nevertheless Tokyo Godfathers is a dramatic and moving piece of cinema that is visually brilliant as well as being genuine and emotionally sincere. Before all of that happens though, the group stumble upon an abandoned baby one night while picking through a pile of trash. Each of them have a past that led them to where they currently are, and over the course of the film we learn about their histories and how they wound up living on the streets. A young woman, a grizzled middle-aged man and a transwoman have come together to form a small dysfunctional family.
The film opens with a homeless trio living on the streets of Tokyo. Just about everything he did gets high praise and credit in fan circles, but the one film that always seems underrated and overlooked is his deeply personal drama Tokyo Godfathers. There are very few others like him out there and the films he left behind are a snapshot into one of the greatest creative geniuses ever to come out of Japan. There is no doubt that for the short time Satoshi Kon impacted the animation world until his tragic passing in 2010 he was a brilliant storyteller and director.
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Even the TV series Paranoia Agent is considered to be a masterpiece of cinema. For anime fans films like Perfect Blue, Paprika, Millenium Actress and the short segment of the anthology movie Memories titled Magnetic Rose are definitive works of the genre. The late visionary director is responsible for some of the most unique and controversial Japanese animated films in history, and many viewers of Kon’s work are still studying his filmography today.
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