Trailer for Remastered ‘Tokyo Godfathers’ Here To Help Right This God Awful Year

Off jump, Tokyo Godfathers is a classic. It’s a critically acclaimed film, it’s a tour de force in the world of animation and it has sincerely one of the best narratives about family in a film in the last this decade. Sidebar: it’s also one of my favorite Christmas films. (Look if y’all keep saying Die Hard fits that category, then Tokyo Godfathers does too, Fight me.) 2020 continues to be a year that wants to test our combined limits of how much grief, severe annoyance and disappointment in our governments and dystopian feels we can take so to hear news that such a film is bringing brought back, remastered with care to theatres makes my heart smile. Seeing Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers in the news brings me a little hope in helping to set this God awful year right and hopefully back on track.

The film follows three homeless people’s lives that are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. Set in modern-day Tokyo, as the New Year fast approaches, these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of the abandoned child and the fate of her parents. Along the way, encounters with seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts, as they learn to face their future, together. There’s plenty of hijinks and proud declarations mixed with themes of hope, found family, facing great odds against you and being at your wits ends when people don’t recognize your humanity.

When I think …