With its masterful grasp of comedy, pathos, social commentary and mystical weirdness, "Tokyo Godfathers" takes anime to a whole new level. U.S. distribber Goldwyn will give this Nippon cartoon a brief ...

The late Satoshi Kon has created some of the most intricate and detailed anime films during his life, and even years later, these films are often discussed for their genre-mixed concepts that play up ...

On Christmas Eve, three homeless companions stumble upon a baby girl in a garbage heap. They name her Kiyoko and vow to care for her as they track down her family. Haunted by memories of their own ...

Tokyo Godfathers follows the story of three homeless characters during the holiday season as they attempt to figure out what to do when they find a newborn baby. As they try to find the baby’s mother, ...

For many of us, movies are more than just entertainment. They’re an escape, a way to see experiences different from our own, and prompts for thinking differently. They’ve been all the more important ...

In 2003, Japanese animator Satoshi Kon presented an upbeat fable about three social outcasts who find an abandoned baby. Recently restored, Toyko Godfathers never sinks into moralizing or treacle.

As Tokyo Godfathers opened, I thought I could boil it down to one descriptive line: Three Men and a Baby meets Japanese anime. But that would rob this elaborately crafted animated feature of its ...

In his first two animated films, Millennium Actress and Perfect Blue, Japanese writer-director Satoshi Kon used the professional illusions of actresses to play subtle, dizzying games with his ...

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