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AFGiant

Very Dickensian, but very good watch. Fun movie, great characters, great music, great animation, and surprisingly optimistic considering some of its themes and incidents. Recommend!

10 years 11 months ago

Zeltaebar

The ending was really, really good. Two thumbs way up!

11 years 9 months ago

Zorobay

RIP Satoshi Kon! I really need to watch all of his movies!

12 years 8 months ago

By the amount of coincidence in Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers, I'm gonna say that a Christmas miracle is unambiguously at work. The story? Three homeless people - a drunk, a trans woman, and a teenage girl - find a baby in the trash during the holiday season and hope to find its parents. The child in a way does come from Heaven because the quest through snowy Tokyo intersects with each of the characters' lives (well, what's a Christmas story without a bit of Dickens happenstance?) and helps them find a little grace. With its muted color palette, the art gives us a good sense of cold, dirty streets, but its greatest achievement is the "acting". Though this can be exaggerated for comic effect at times, it feels very real in the dramatic moments. And that vertiginous climax, well, I suddenly found myself literally on the edge of my seat, and caring about these ink and color creations. For all the action, comedy and melodrama, it's that perfect ending that was the clincher.

2 years 4 months ago

Lumen

I'm actually disappointed. I really loved Perfect Blue and Millenium Actress, and Paprika was super crazy, but this movie by Satoshi Kon really felt out of tune.
There's only so many miracles I can stand. And all those overdone facial expressions...
The story is quite original, the characters are alright, sometimes interesting and realistic, sometimes cliche and ridiculous.
There are still a lot of sparks of Kon's genius, especially to represent the (real) suffering of the characters.

7 years 4 months ago