Tokyo Godfathers

Directed by Kon Satoshi
Starring Aya Okamoto, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Toru Emori, Shakina Nayfack

In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people’s lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. 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 the seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts, as they learn to face their future, together. 

Our take: From the legendary director of Paprika and Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon, Tokyo Godfathers follows a chaotic Christmas/New Year’s adventure of rough sleepers chasing through the streets of Tokyo to find a baby’s parents. A story of found family and acceptance, a perfect start to a new year.