In a garbage bag on Tokyo

[taotrooper]

I just watched my first Satoshi Kon movie, and from all of the options I go and pick the non-mindfucking, non-creepy one. Yup, that would be Tokyo Godfathers. What an adorable film!

And you know, past the "oh goodie, Latino hitman from all things *rolleyes*", I was sort of amused by the dialogs in Spanish. Then again, it helps that the Spanish was 10000 times more fluid than on, for instance, Heroes. At least the woman was definitely a native speaker and even had a Southern accent (Argentinian? Uruguayan?)

But back to Japan, there was this documentary on cable about a certain pest animal on Tokyo. I had no idea that crows were overpopulating that city. And I thought the seagulls in Galicia were ridiculous! Crows steal their food from the garbage bags and steal wire hangers to use them as base for their nests. And those bitches are huge! Kind of scary, too.

Comments

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

I ♥ Tokyo Godfather. I usually hate christmas stories, but this one's so cute and funny ^^

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Probably it's because it was beyond Christmas. But yeah, I'd much rather watch this for a Christmas movie than the same old winter movies.

[laurus-nobilis.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that my first thought about your last paragraph was "Fakir wouldn't like Tokyo"? DX

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I think he wouldn't like a large city anyway, with or without crows, but YEAH, HE'D HATE IT SO HARD. Taking out the trash to find those creepy bastards lurking around would be traumatic.

[hungrybookworm.livejournal.com]

Brilliant film! (And I'm glad they got the Spanish right!) I found it to be really interesting as well, since you rarely get anime about the homeless population.

My school has both seagulls and crows O.o They usually swoop down at the end of lunch, so if you look out of the window, you can see this massive feeding frenzy going on. It's quite scary!

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

I bet the homeless were more romanticized than they are in real life, but the characters are so cute and human I couldn't care less.

.....scary D:

[hamsterfactor.livejournal.com]

Tokyo Godfathers is lovely! ♥ I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

I think you'd also enjoy Millennium Actress, which is my favourite by Satoshi Kon. It's a bit more out there than TG but still not really a mindfuck a la Perfect Blue or Paprika. Anyway, Perfect Blue is the most fucked up one, hands down.

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Perfect Blue is the one with the idol and the crazy stalker, right? But yeah, the ones I want to watch the most are Millennium Actress and Paprika.

[sha-chan.livejournal.com]

Paprikaaaaaa.

Justo la vi anoche y es genial \o\

[rainmage.livejournal.com]

Ya lo leí XD y vi el post justo después de terminar esta peli, así que fue LOL CUÁNTO SATOSHI KON |D

[zauberer-sirin.livejournal.com]

Tokyo Godfathers is totally adorable! It's also an homage of neorrealism (specially of "Miracle in Milan" of which rips off the tone quite blatantly) in the same way "Perfect Blue" is a Hitchcock/De Palma pastiche and "Millenium Actress" is a not-really-coded love letter to Yazuhiro Ozu.

Ha ha, sorry about the geekiness there but Kon gets even more enjoyable when you play the "spot the reference" game. Much like Spaced.

Crows in Japan are GIGANTIC. I remember seeing one in particular (we were at the entrance of some museum or something) who looked the size of a dog or something.