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Dublin - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

screening of 'Tokyo Godfathers' (2003)

category dublin | arts and media | event notice author Monday January 04, 2016 19:39author by Dublin Film Qlub Report this post to the editors

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DUBLIN FILM QLUB SEASON SIX:
FUNCTIONAL FAMILIES
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our new season continues with...

TOKYO GODFATHERS
(Dirs. Satoshi Kon, and Shogo Furuya, 2003)
Japanese with English subtitles

sat 16 January 2016
2.30pm (doors open at 2)
day membership: 8 euro
(free tea and coffee)

The New Theatre
43 East Essex street
(entrance through Connolly Books)
Temple Bar
Dublin 2

Japanese animation has revolutionised the artform, thanks to wonderfully imaginative fantasy and science fiction films, and thanks to unsurpased realist films offering impressive gestural and psychological observation.

Here’s a story about a group of outcasts who end up living on the streets for various reasons, and who band together to form a kind of family. In this case, our protagonists seem to replicate a traditional nuclear family ─but what a transformation! The anchoring trans matriarch, the wino mate with a perhaps once-glorious past, the rebel-with-a-cause girl-boy child, and… what is this? A new-born baby found in the garbage?

Tokyo Godfathers does not romanticise homelessness, and we are not spared the brutality and suffering that the poorest among us are subjected to. Precisely because of their dire circumstances, their nobility and charm, and their principled, humane behaviour, shines like pure gold among the squalor.

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