Kidnappings. Gangsters. Drag clubs. Car crashes. Stabbings. ¡°Tokyo Godfathers¡± is not your average Christmas movie.
Yet in the years since its release, the 2003 anime film by the late director Satoshi Kon has become a holiday classic. It¡¯s being screened this month in theaters in , and . to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
¡°Tokyo Godfathers¡± centers on three homeless people who have formed a kind of makeshift family. There¡¯s Gin (voiced by Toru Emori), a middle-aged man whose drinking and gambling cost him his wife and daughter, Miyuki (Aya Okamoto), a teenage runaway, and Hana (Yoshiaki Umegaki), a transgender woman and former drag performer. On Christmas, the trio discovers an abandoned baby, and Hana convinces her companions to go on a quest to find the child¡¯s mother. So begins a journey across Tokyo filled with action, danger, and even a few Christmas miracles.
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