Tokyo Godfathers
(2004, original release: 2003)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/ANIME/TOKYO

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/ANIME/TOKYO Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Culver City, Calif. : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2004]
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
1404946918 02814
LANGUAGE
Japanese
NOTES

Title from container

The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents

Originally released as a motion picture in 2003

Special features: animax making of featurette; theatrical trailer; bonus trailers

Director of photography, Katsutoshi Sugai ; animation director, Ken'īchi Konishi ; art director, Nobutaka Ike ; editor, Takeshi Seyama ; music, Keiichi Suzuki ; character designer, Satoshi Kon, Ken'īchi Konishi

Voices: Toru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto, Shôzô Îzuka, Seizô Katô, Hiroya Ishimaru, Ryûji Saikachi, Yûsaku Yara, Kyôko Terase

MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, violent images, languages and some sexual material

DVD, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1

Japanese dialogue, English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

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