Tokyo Godfathers: An Anime Christmas Classic | KYOTO VIDEO
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- Опубликовано: 9 июл 2024
- The ultimate anime Christmas film has turned 20 this year. Here's why you should care!
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00:00 Let's Talk About Christmas Movies
1:53 Intro
02:24 Tokyo Godfathers
05:54 The Grounded History of Tokyo Godfathers
12:27 Yes Virginia, There Is a Purpose for the Animation
22:20 Tokyo Godfathers: A Story
28:18 3 Godfathers
35:59 Tokyo Godfathers: A Christmas Story
42:32 Credits
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I'm still infuriated that Kon died so young. I honestly believe if he'd lived to have a full career, he'd been the next true Great of animation. Someone who'd be mentioned alongside Disney and Miyazaki, respected for making genuinely mature anime for adults. Instead, between his untimely death and his films varying in availability, he's starting to be forgotten. It's just not fair.
He’ll always be a legend
Having had been homeless for 5 years, off and on (mostly on, for long stretches) watching this after getting off of the streets was deeply painful, but cathartic. A very beautiful movie though. Wouldn't wish homelessness on my worst enemy, regardless of their circumstances that might cause it. Stay safe, stay happy, enjoy the holidays and eat lots of great food. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
I’m a month off the streets myself …
🥂 Keep Going …
Merry Christmas my guy. ❤️🩹
@@StephenRansom47You too! I hope things keep getting better for ya.
@@poepoe5311same too you! And thank you!
Your Comic Book Guy reading of that pretentious reviewer guy who hated the movie is so spot on. I f'n loved this movie so hard when I first saw it like 10 years ago.
On the flipside, it made me respect Ray Harryhausen a bit less.
@@JessicaRainey970 lol. If only that story was actually true. Dude saw Harryhausen in a restaurant one time and fan fic'd his moment.
@@KingofCrusher Well then, I guess my faith is restored!
Maybe it's the APM music playing, but I heard Bubble Bass there (who... pretty much is Comic Book Guy in fish form so yeah).
I feel like I keep rating it higher each time I rewatch. So I guess at least 17/10 at this point.
Boy, having just finished rewatching Noaki Urasawa's 'Monster', hearing that "no reason they couldn't have done this as live action" critic tangent hits huge for me.
And it's just such a fatuous argument. Along the same lines, imagine someone saying that nobody should bother painting a landscape, because they can just take pictures. Shift the art's medium just slightly, and the sentiment becomes self-evidently dumb.
Ah Keiko Nobumoto, the master behind KH1, Cowboy Bebop and Wolf's rain. Truly a visionary. May you rest well, Queen.
5:36 Also worth noting the Movie available for Free on RUclips, and not the typical "Free on RUclips" that most older anime are where it's one guy uploading a low quality rip with the voice pitched and a border to get past the copyright bots. Just available for Free from RUclips, so there's no reason not to watch it tonight.
Yup, this should be pinned honestly.
Just did, and the "must see" tag is absolutely apt. Wonderful movie.
Satoshi Kon's legacy is as a true visionary who left us entirely too early but gave us genuine treasures before he did.
Amid Amidi's legacy is as the guy who drove off the actual animation historians from his site and defended animation's skeeviest edgelord.
This movie means a lot to me. I watch it every Christmas. 20 years ago I took my 8 year old daughter to one of those EIGHT theaters that was showing this film and loved it ever since. However I didn't k ow it had a new Dub!
I didn't even notice Hana's face taking on the form of the cab driver on my first watch. This movie is incredible.
Same, love that part XD Hana's definitely my favourite part
Tokyo Godfathers is right at the top of my list of animes that I recommend to newbies. It's grounded enough not to scare off the "animation is for children" crowd and doesn't need you to be that familiar with Japanese culture.
Satoshi Kon was a true artist and sadly left this world far too early.
I had no idea that the original DVD release was so hard to find. I guess I somehow managed to get lucky while rummaging secondhand bookstores.
Same. That along with Millenium Actress. But so glad they got rereleased for more people to obtain them
This movie is one of the best Christmas movies of all time regardless of genre. Tells such a great story.
Your channel is absolutely underrated. I'll definitely be sharing this amongst my friends this holiday season. Keep up the great content! 🇯🇵
Funnily enough in terms of Christmas movie classics, I hold both Tokyo Godfathers and Elf in High Regard as representations of two styles of Christmas movies.
animation is such a great medium that it always suck how people try to limit its potential to tell amazing stories
One of my fav Christmas movies and animes
It's become a tradition to see this every Christmas and it really captures the spirit of the season
The characters are treated with such realism and endearing
It may get fantastical, but, it is the time of miracles
I hadn't watched this movie in at least 15 years. Your essay made me want to revisit it. I think the argument that it could have been made in "live action" is myopic, especially for an animation critic. If Tokyo Godfathers was live-action, it would be an expensive production with challenging logistics: location shoots all over Tokyo, stunts, an infant actor in almost every scene. And with that enormous budget would come studio interference: the requirement that Miyuki be "cuter", that the leads be big names..etc. Hell, the opening has Gin and Miyuki get into a physical altercation where Gin hits Miyuki. That works in animation, and can be seen as a funny way to show how dysfunctional/family-like there relationship is. If you had a middle-age man hit a teenage girl irl, it would give the movie a much darker tone. That would have needed to be changed.
Animation is a very flexible medium. And one of it's great flexibilities is that it can pivot tone and style while still presenting a coherent piece of cinema. And Tokyo Godfathers is constantly switching tone. We know as an audience that if the characters go off-model the moment is comedic, and when they return to model, or we do a closeup, we know it's sincere. The animation clues us in. Do this in live-action? The first criticism would be about it's "inconsistent tone." This criticism gets leveraged at lesser comedies all the time, but it's rare to hear that criticism about animation. I agree with you KB. This movies a lot of ground, and to successfully translate it to live action would require it's vision being compromised.
This is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'm so glad you covered it on its 20th anniversary. I actually didn't know it had been re-released with an English dub. I'm going to check out that version since I've only watched the subbed version. I own the original DVD run and didn't realize it was rare too.
Heh. Got this from the Columbia Movie Club in college. Didn''t appreciate it at the time cause I was expecting something more like Ninja Scroll (titties and violence). Found it a couple of years later when I was cleaning up my dorm prior to graduation. Hit differently as an actual adult. Watch it every year now.
The snow and Santa hat during the intro were lovely and not unnoticed.
I’m a sucker for Christmas Movies and Anime so it’s a treat.
My favorite Christmas movie, I watch it every year. Sometimes I get to show it to other people, too. I usually say it's a story of miracles presented as coincidences.
This video essay didn’t spoil the film in the slightest. It just convinced me to watch the film. Thank you
Seeing this film for the first time last Christmas was a highlight, and getting to watch your review for this Christmas is also a highlight!
Happy Holidays, Kaiserbeamz!
Thanks for talking about this movie. I've seen it pretty regularly since Christmas 2017 and always thought it didn't get the appreciation it deserved.
Happened upon the Blu-ray of this at Walmart last Christmas season. Snatched it up right on the spot. My favorite Satoshi Kon film.
The perfect ugly cry movie for the perfect ugly cry season.
Can’t believe I’m just now seeing this, one of my fav RUclipsrs talking about one of my fav movies
why does this goes so well in my head with Max Payne 1 ?
Another great episode.
Would it be too much to ask that you use the snow overlay for all "Winter" films. I looked great and helps set the tone. Plus, the Santa hat at the end was a cute touch.
LOVED the Comic Book Guy/"akschully" voice for Amid, and agree that he and (I reluctantly say Ray Harryhuasen) can indeed Get Bent! I feel animation is still a much misunderstood and unnecessarily maligned medium (preaching to the choir, I know) medium. I LOVE that they added the real Tokyo, because when I go to make my visit there (along with the dozen or so other destinations I have on my bucket list), I want to, in the words of Anthony Bourdain, "...be a traveler, not a tourist."
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you KB
This one is definitely going down in my list of favorite episodes from Kyoto Video, thank you for giving folks a wonderfully crafted video that gives the spotlight to a film that deserves to be seen.
I hope 2024 brings you good fortune, stay gold
Bang!
Happy Christmas, KaiserBeamz, ya wonderful ‘Ol possum!
Feels so weird seeing this film dubbed in the clips, watched this subbed for many years. I always try to recommend this film when people are looking for different Christmas films along with anyone looking to see what animation can truely offer as an experience. One of my favorite Christmas films of all time
I've just watched "We're No Angels" staring Bogart and Ustinov, so this movie will be the perfect follow up.
Excellent review!
I still get tight in the chest during the chase scene and the gust of wind.
Feel bad I slept on this. Thanks for the great review and Happy Holidays!
Thanks So Much for this one … excellently covered, as usual.
The very thought of ANYONE thinking this could be done with ‘Actors’ in a Live Action is absurd. It made me really mad.
I Ask, WHY?
Why would it NEED to be?
Live Action is NOT the prime form of Storytelling.
Animation Is. 🧘
It’s film work doesn’t need the Sun to be perfect, or the Crowds to be Managed, or Celebrities to stay young & fit forever … it doesn’t need ReCasting! 😤
Animation Is My Prime Story Teller!
*just thinking about Watership Down as a live action makes me sick. The CGI version is bad enough.
Really good movie. Have to rewatch Millennium Actress.
This was my first Kon film. I thought it was as great holiday movie and when I heard how surreal his other films were, I hesitated on watching those. Been a long time since I've seen it. Need to do a rewatch.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to everyone and may the Spirit of Hana bless you all .
This will be my 3rd year in a row watching this on Christmas/Eve. Always such a joy and never fails to bring the Christmas spirit. Merry Christmas KaiserBeamz!
good choice, fun analysis. merry xmas kbz
Interesting review 🎄
Yes ❤❤❤
Great movie and great review!👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽
Your video convinced me to watch it, great movie
Saying something shouldn't be animated because it doesn't do anything special is a lot like saying portraits shouldn't be painted because photographs exist.
39:59 Its been a while since I experience sudden large emotional from these few moments again...and then tried to push them back down like how the comedian Bill Burr once said, lol.
Unrelated to the video itself, but do you have a list of what shows, movies and OVAs you used in your intro? I'm specifically interested in the animation that's second after the Urusei Yatsura clip. The one with the incredibly unique style.
Others noticed are Interstella 5555, Read or Die (OVA), A Tenchi Muyo film (which one is eluding me right now), Metropolis, Riding Bean and Video Girl Ai. Hopefully that helps.
I remember catching this movie on a DirecTV channel back in the late 2000s i forgot the name but not this movie.
One of the wholsomest full-lenght animated movies (or even movies overal) I've seen in my life.
I remember watching someones video about Satoshi Kon's works on YoutTube, naturally "Tokyo Godfathers" was mentioned in it and after I've seen that angel joke ("- What will you choose? My magic or the ambulance?") I've quickly paused the video and just run to watch the movie itself 'cause I just couldn't stop laughing from that moment and wanted to watch it in full BEFORE I've got any serious spoilers from that video)) And I wasn't disappointed 'cause it delivered. And the next week I was advicing my mother to watch it too.
So this is a big question since you talk about black jack the movie are you going to do jungle empore leo or the 2003 astro boy anime
8:39 i mean...considering how godawful that film was (gorgeous animation direction aside), i can't really blame miyazaki for taking back control afterwards lmfao
It's a good movie
What is your intro song?
You should analyze Kurokami anime.
You can say all you want that the other characters are ugly but how can you say Miyuki is???
Hey what's the name of this channel's intro song?
I Miss You (feat. Roman) Macross 82-99
@@cthellis thank you
I’m building the hype for the next Looney Tunes video….
13:27 I disagree with that statement. A movie doesn't need a reason to be animated. The point of art is to tell a story.
It’s a travesty that your videos don’t get more views and I think it’s going to help that you’re writing more sub-headers. But I think they should be more clickbaity and maybe on the actual cover image. Eg. “Pet shop of horrors: high camp, low budget” or “animatrix: America STILL wasn’t ready” (I’m not great at this but the point remains).
God I hate Amid, that's all.
For Hana being Christian, I dunno. I never got the impression she was Christian so much as seriously respecting the people about to give her a meal. Based on the crowd, the meal was clearly predicated on attending a sermon, and Hana was just the only one to enjoy herself and appreciate the entertainment, whereas everyone else saw it as a time waster they were forced to endure for food. Given Hana's small stage background, I'm of the mind she was enjoying it as a nice little show.
(This is separate from my belief that it is time wasting nonsense and that I find it very hard to be both trans and Christian, part of why I'm atheist now)
Why is everyone doing essays on this all of a sudden?
20th anniversary of the film's release
Because it's Christmas, and when it comes to Christmas anime it's generally either Tokyo Godfathers or Itsudatte My Santa. Well, unless you want to start counting random other anime where the plot gets real around Christmas, such as Nanoha A's, School Days, Toradora, or most Precure seasons, but the rest of the series outside of those arcs are not about Christmas.
@@erichfiedler1481 Thank you, I had not even know about the anniversary
@@SecretIdentityStudio Thanks for the lengthy response. This film really seems to dive into the whole Christmas motif especially with the baby being found by 3 people , allegory with Jesus and the 3 wisemen
‘tis the season.
Perhaps Breadsword made some enemies.
Oh gods…. as much as I love Tokyo Godfathers and everything about it, I don’t think I can get through dub dialogue to do so. 😝
The seiyuu’s voices are just so thoroughly embedded at this point.
Die Hard is mid, this and Gundam 0080 iare my favorite Xmas movies (OVA)
Very odd that critics overlooked the sheer amount of warmth and humanity that animation allowed in this story. The majority of Kon's films had a basis in reality and that is why I loved them. You just dont see anime that deal with grounded social struggles anymore. I watch this film and Millennium Actress every couple years and even though Im mostly a dub viewer, the purely specific Japanese cultural aspects in the films make me cringe at hearing the English dub. His films are so much more like watching an independent live action foreign drama that it feels bizarre in english. Kon passed far too young, but made pinnacle anime films in my eyes.
I'd add (as if the dancing building in the credits weren't obvious enough), Tokyo as a character is animated, which you are not going to be able to do with any grace live action.
Complaining that this didn't need to be animated misses the point. It was and is, and certainly takes nothing away from the story
I love this film but omg this English dub is rough to me
There's also a lost animax English dub as well
The Japanese dub isn't very good either imo. I used to love this movie but now it's kinda mehh
@@kevinfromsales9445 no way. The Japanese dub is fantastic. Great performances.
Good review but I had to dislike for the disrespect towards the great Ray Harryhausen
Fell asleep translated.
He got drunk or high and only became a reviewer to clout chase celebrities.
I have the film on DVD and a digital rip, so yeah, I'm a fan of the movie, especially after seeing the superb "Millennium Actress". Nonetheless, I was never fan of the transvestite character, but he is still good. I just didn't see the point of the role being trans oriented instead of a actual female character. It came across more pandering IMO.
The whole point is that they're all outcasts in some way, how would a trans drag queen be pandering in that era not the former
24:00
I've only ever seen this subbed and wow, it's so weird hearing the dub voices. Hana's dub voice is just bad though and I always thought he was more an otokonoko than actually trans. But I'm glad I saw this subbed, I like Hana more than Gin because of it, the dub would have made me like Gin more. Miyuki sounds good in both versions.
I think the term unhoused implies more like the homeless want to live on the street while homeless sounds like they don't want to be on the street. Homeless implies they have nowhere to go, and they don't, not really.