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The Tokyo Godfathers DVD features Satoshi Kon’s 2003 animated film from Madhouse, in which three homeless friends in Tokyo find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve and set out to find her parents. It runs about 92 minutes. This is a pre-owned copy in Good condition, in stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Add it to your cart today.
| Format | DVD |
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| Condition | Good Condition |
| Availability | In stock |
The Tokyo Godfathers DVD brings home Satoshi Kon's 2003 animated feature about three homeless friends who find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve in Tokyo. Made by the Japanese studio Madhouse, it is a warm, funny and surprisingly tense holiday story that runs about 92 minutes.
This is a pre-owned copy in Good condition. It is a standard DVD, so it plays in any DVD player and in Blu-ray players too.
On Christmas Eve, three people living on the streets of Tokyo are digging through garbage when they discover a newborn girl. Gin is a middle-aged alcoholic, Hana is a transgender woman who once worked at a club, and Miyuki is a teenage runaway. Hana names the baby Kiyoko, and the three set out across the city to find her parents.
Their search turns into a chain of coincidences across the city, pulling each of the three back toward the lives and families they left behind. Kon balances slapstick with real emotion, and the story treats its unlikely heroes with respect.
Tokyo Godfathers premiered at the Big Apple Anime Fest on August 30, 2003, and opened in Japanese theaters on November 8, 2003. It won the Excellence Award at the 2003 Japan Media Arts Festival and Best Animation Film at the 58th Mainichi Film Awards.
Satoshi Kon's films are prized by collectors of Japanese animation, and Tokyo Godfathers is one of his most approachable. It is set in a recognizable modern city at night and centers on three people trying to do the right thing, which makes it an easy first pick for viewers new to anime.
The film's first North American DVD arrived on April 13, 2004, in Japanese with English subtitles. GKIDS later restored the film in 4K and added a new English dub for a 2020 re-release. Owning the disc means Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers stays on your shelf, with no streaming license that can expire.
Pair it with another acclaimed Japanese feature, Spirited Away on Blu-ray + DVD, or browse our full anime collection. Our guide to the best anime on DVD and Blu-ray has more picks. For cast and production details, see the Wikipedia article on Tokyo Godfathers.
Tokyo Godfathers DVD: Questions Buyers Ask
Who directed Tokyo Godfathers?
Satoshi Kon directed it and co-wrote the screenplay with Keiko Nobumoto. Madhouse animated the film.
Is it a good movie to watch at Christmas?
Yes. The story begins on Christmas Eve and follows the search for a lost baby's parents over the holiday season.
Will it play in my DVD player?
Yes. It is a standard DVD, and it also plays in Blu-ray players.
What condition is this copy in?
It is a pre-owned copy in Good condition, and our 30-day return policy covers your purchase.
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Actual review of Multi-Region Blu-ray
I’ve finally purchased and viewed this multi-region (Umbrella, from Australia) Blu-ray release (despite stating Region B on the cover) of Tokyo Godfathers. The video and audio quality of this release seems on par with the Japanese Blu-ray, which I have on hand, regretfully retaining even the same “pictureboxing” effect, which was probably meant to combat TV vendor default overscan, so you can see all of the intended image (but most people just see it as a hack job of having black bars around the entire picture), on a positive side, the grain structure seems intact; but there are a few exceptional differences about this release. Most important ones are found in the single subtitle track, which wisely departs from the Japanese release’s translation choice during the foreign (to Japan) language portions, where both sides of a language barrier were translated, which didn’t convey the proper confusion; here they omit the translation of the foreign dialog, only translating what the main character says normally in Japanese or both parties attempt through broken-English. The omission has greater effect on the flow by immersing the viewer in mainly the protagonist’s perspective (if there were burned in Japanese subtitles intending for native audiences to understand the other side, then things would be different, but it wasn’t originally considered important for the audience to be omniscient of their failed exchange). Furthermore, the subtitles have a bolder, easier to read font when compared to the Japanese disc; mix in some translation tweaks I noticed here and there in my spot check (it isn’t Christmas/New Year’s time yet…), it should overall be considered an improvement on an already serviceable script. Another unexpected feature, which nicely explains the difference between the Amazon image of the cover and what you’ll initially receive, is the inclusion of a reversible cover, which offers the same nice artwork without the obnoxious age rating and company logo, plus the movie title is shifted to below all of the characters. It is a very nice and unexpected touch, which further solidifies my satisfaction about this purchase. Japanese quality in video and audio, an improvement on the English subtitles from the Japanese release, and attention to detail on the cover for collectors/enthusiasts. Just understand the intentional pictureboxing effect for what it is and enjoy this great multi-region Blu-ray of a truly great animated film, nay, masterpiece.