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One-time Only Screening of Tokyo Godfathers at LantarenVenster

In collaboration with LantarenVenster, Camera Japan will screen Tokyo Godfathers at 19:00 on Tuesday, March 24 at LantarenVenster in Rotterdam.

is a modern classic by KON Satoshi, a renowned director of Japanese animation. KON, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 46, also directed Perfect Blue and Paprika.

Storyline:
One Christmas Eve, three homeless people – a middle-aged alcoholic named Gin, a former drag queen named Hana, and a dependent runaway girl named Miyuki – discover an abandoned newborn while searching through the garbage. A search for the parents of the child ensues. During their efforts their respective pasts catch up with them as they learn to look ahead to the future.

Anime is usually seen as something typically Japanese, even representing the country and its culture. But the Japanese animation industry has a long history of interaction with Asia, North America, and Europe. From the early days of Astro Boy, via Studio Ghibli, to the latest made-for-Netflix animation, such interaction continues to shape anime to this day – including a litte pitstop in Holland along the way.

Tom MES will give a lecture on anime prior to the screening of Tokyo Godfathers.

About the author

Rhythm Zaveri

Hello, my name is Rhythm Zaveri. For as long as I can remember, I've been watching movies, but my introduction to Asian cinema was old rental VHS copies of Bruce Lee films and some Shaw Bros. martial arts extravaganzas. But my interest in the cinema of the region really deepened when I was at university and got access to a massive range of VHS and DVDs of classic Japanese and Chinese titles in the library, and there has been no turning back since.

An avid collector of physical media, I would say Korean cinema really is my first choice, but I'll watch anything that is south-east Asian. I started contributing to Asian Movie Pulse in 2018 to share my love for Asian cinema in the form of my writings.

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