Embers Festival: Tokyo Godfathers
Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina
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Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina
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Embers Young People's Film Festival presents Tokyo Godfathers Tokyo Godfathers (2003) is a highly acclaimed, unconventional Japanese animated Christmas tragicomedy. Written and directed by the legendary anime master Satoshi Kon (Paprika, Perfect Blue) , it is widely celebrated as his most grounded, compassionate, and humanist work. Comedy / Adventure │ In Japanese with English subtitles Synopsis: Middle-aged alcoholic Gin, teenage runaway Miyuki and former drag queen Hana are a trio of homeless people surviving as a makeshift family on the streets of Tokyo.