Screening times:
Saturday, December 6, 8:15 PM

Satoshi Kon | 2003 | Japan | 92m
Japanese with English subtitles

Middle-aged alcoholic Gin (Toru Emori), teenage runaway Miyuki (Aya Okamoto) and former drag queen Hana (Yoshiaki Umegaki) are a trio of homeless people surviving as a makeshift family on the streets of Tokyo. While rummaging in the trash for food on Christmas Eve, they stumble upon an abandoned newborn baby in a trash bin. With only a handful of clues to the baby's identity, the three misfits search the streets of Tokyo for help in returning the baby to its parents.

Beautiful and substantive, Tokyo Godfathers adds a moving - and somewhat unconventional - entry to the animated Christmas canon.

Best Animated Feature Film - Sitges Catalonian International Film Festival 2003
Best Director - Tokyo Anime Award 2004
Best Animated Film - Mainichi Film Concours 2004

$12 ($11.40 cash at the door)