Guess what? Jay finally remembered to include a honey based recipe. He felt so bad about not remembering to deliver a recipe the last several episodes that he put this one at the front of the episode. Try not to be too hard on him, he's getting rather elderly and forgetting things.
This week we watched the Japanese animated "Tokyo Godfathers." Although, this movie is set on Christmas Eve, you hardly remember "or know" that it is actually Christmas Eve.
The plotline centers around 3 main characters: Gin, Hana and Miyuki. All are voluntary homeless. Their personal choices in their past lives have led them to where they are now. One of the characters, for example, Gin, regales the story that his family died a long time ago and he has been left alone in the world without them and is overcome with loneliness. And then we find out later that the truth is much different and this is the arc for all of the characters. The story that they tell themselves are fictions they create and during the course of the story, they must reconcile with the truth.
There are many plot points in this movie: One being that these three friends are "given" the unexpected gift of a newborn baby that they are "asked" to take care of while trying to find the baby's birth parents. Another member of this makeshift family, Hana, is elated as she has always wanted to be a mother.
Tokyo Godfathers is the 2003 endeavor by renowned animator, screenwriter and manga artist, Satoshi Kon. At this point, this was Kon's most ambitious and expensive project tipping the scales at 300 million yen in production costs. Themes of homelessness and abandonment interweaved with comedy are it's core tenants.
The screenplay for this movie was written by Keiko Nobumoto. Kon's movie also marked the transition from celluloid animation to digital animation.
