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Tokyo Godfathers Series: Satoshi Kon: Beyond Imagination [June 27-July 1, 2008] Director: Satoshi Kon & Shôgo Furuya, Country: USA, Release: 2003, Runtime: 92 Never content to merely repeat his successes, Satoshi Kon ventured into yet another entirely new direction for his third film, Tokyo Godfathers. This darkly comic melodrama captures three homeless drifters huddling together on a cold, icy Christmas night. Miyuki, a young girl, ran away from home after arguing with her father. Gin, a middle-aged alcoholic, lost his family after gambling away his savings. Their supposed leader is Hana, a no-nonsense transvestite who has just never fit in anywhere. As the three amble towards their makeshift cardboard hut, they discover an abandoned baby girl. This unlikely trio must decide what they should do — especially when it seems that a gang of yakuza are looking for the child. Clearly a tip of the hat to John Ford’s Three Godfathers, in which three cowpokes led by John Wayne (here re-imagined as a transvestite) rescue a baby, Tokyo Godfathers presents astonishingly rich, well-developed characters whose back stories become more resonant as the group faces further dangers and challenges. Kon and co-screenwriter Keiko Nobuwata have created a new Christmas Carol for our times.

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