Tokyo godfathers /

Tokyo godfathers /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Culver City, Calif. : Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2004]
Description:	1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language:	Japanese
Subject:	Abandoned children -- Drama. Homeless persons -- Drama. Abandoned children. Homeless persons. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Animated films. Drama. Feature films. Fiction films.
Format:	DVD Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8454980

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Varying Form of Title:	Also known as: Tōkyō goddofāzāzu
Other authors / contributors:	Kon, Satoshi, 1963-2010. Nobumoto, Keiko. Emori, Tōru, 1944- Umegaki, Yoshiaki, 1959- Okamoto, Aya, 1982- Īzuka, Shōzō, 1933- Katō, Seizō, 1927-2014 Ishimaru, Hiroya. Saikachi, Ryūji. Yara, Yūsaku, 1948- Terase, Kyōko. Sugai, Katsutoshi. Konishi, Kenichi. Ike, Nobutaka. Suzuki, Keiichi, 1951- Mad House Inc. Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm)
ISBN:	1404946918 9781404946910
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Special features: animax making of featurette; theatrical trailer; bonus trailers. Director of photography, Katsutoshi Sugai ; animation director, Kenʼichi Konishi ; art director, Nobutaka Ike ; editor, Takeshi Seyama ; music, Keiichi Suzuki ; character designer, Satoshi Kon, Kenʼichi Konishi. Voices: Tōru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto, Shōzō Īzuka, Seizō Katō, Hiroya Ishimaru, Ryūji Saikachi, Yūsaku Yara, Kyōko Terase. DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1. Japanese dialogue with optional English, French, Portuguese or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English.
Summary:	The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents.
Target Audience:	MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, violent images, languages and some sexual material.
Standard no.:	043396028142
Publisher's no.:	02814 Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment

Description
Summary:	Three homeless people find a lost baby and start searching for her parents on Christmas Day in Tokyo. Along the way they must confront their own haunted pasts, and learn to face their futures. From the highly acclaimed director of Millennium Actress. 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 seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts, as they learn to face their future, together."
Item Description:	Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Special features: animax making of featurette; theatrical trailer; bonus trailers.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Audience:	MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, violent images, languages and some sexual material.
Production Credits:	Director of photography, Katsutoshi Sugai ; animation director, Kenʼichi Konishi ; art director, Nobutaka Ike ; editor, Takeshi Seyama ; music, Keiichi Suzuki ; character designer, Satoshi Kon, Kenʼichi Konishi.
ISBN:	1404946918 9781404946910