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Tokyo Godfathers


Directed by: Satoshi Kon


2003 | Japan | 92 minutes



Screening

Friday, December 21, 2018, 7pm

Matinee

Saturday, December 22, 2018, 1pm

Matinee

Saturday, December 22, 2018, 4pm



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.


"Loosely based on 3 Godfathers, John Ford's maudlin 1948 western, this movie, a sweet fable of decency amid the down and out, also has echoes of Chaplin and Capra." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times



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