Top 50 Anime Features
We pride ourselves on our collections of excellence that reflect the eclectic interests and talents of the Wanganui community. With some expert help we've put together a list of the top fifty anime features of all time. If you see one you like, click through to the catalogue to see if it's on the shelf or to reserve it. If we don't have it in the collection right now, we'll try to get it for you!
*Films marked "FF" are rated family-friendly.
43. Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
43. Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
Directed and written by Satoshi Kon
Rated M
“Tokyo Godfathers is also full of surprises. Laced with screwball comedy and high-speed action, the film encompasses more complex themes than the usual sugar-coated ‘spirit of Christmas.’” – Sharon Mizota, PopMatters
In Tokyo on Christmas Eve, three homeless people – a middle-aged alcoholic, a drag queen and a preteen runaway – find an abandoned infant in a rubbish bin and set off on a quest to find the child’s parents.
A surprisingly warm and down-to-earth offering from anime’s master of absurdist grotesquery, Satoshi Kon, this tragicomedy carefully skirts bathos and becomes something quite human and touching by film’s end.
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