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...keeping with Kon's taste for offbeat topics, Tokyo Godfathers follows a makeshift family of homeless people?transvestite ex-drag queen Hana, scruffy middle-aged bum Gin and runaway teenager Miyuki?who discover an abandoned baby in a garbage heap and embark on a search for its parents. It's a briskly paced comedy with a gentle core and a prickly surface. ("You can't get milk from an old queer's tits," yells Gin, mocking Hana's burgeoning maternal instincts.) Set during Christmas in a gorgeously detailed, snow-softened Tokyo, it's also one of the most affectionate, meticulous...
...more than sartorial; he is one of the rare animators whose creative point of reference isn't other animation or manga. Instead, he takes his inspiration from reality: "My ideas for movies come from the world that I live in. When I walk down the street I see homeless people. I started to wonder why they didn't show up in movies. It seemed like an obvious topic...
...also have much in common, starting with a passion for storytelling. Despite an occasional scene with a point to make?for example, a homeless tent pitched in the shadow of Tokyo's glittering city hall?Kon's penchant for realistic settings and characters doesn't make him a social crusader. "I like drawing pictures and telling stories," he says. "I'm not trying to save Japan; I just want to show people how things look to me." For all his impatience with Miyazaki's morals and happy endings, it's hard to avoid the impression that Kon took some cues...
...cases of empty beer bottles," says Ike. "I came to think of the city as a character in the movie." Tokyo Godfathers' portrayal of the metropolis is so fresh and stark that it's hard to view the city in the same slick way again. Tokyo's bright-eyed homeless men, the occasional sashaying transvestite, and the teenage girls languishing in the shadows like lost children shift into the foreground, while the usual symbols of the capital suddenly seem irrelevant...
...cops, etc., and it’s basically in the style of the “In Living Color” Saturday Night Live skit. It begins with Batman and Robin finding themselves in a bad sort of neighborhood in a bad sort of alley. There are these two homeless men who grow more and more indignant. Eventually, the homeless men beat up the Dynamic Duo, steal their costumes, and start fighting crime on their own terms...