Animation director and writer Satoshi Kon has two previous movies: Perfect Blue and Millenium Actress Both can be found at most bigger video store and are well worth your time, especially the powerful, lyrical and startling Millenium Actress. Although animated, neither are kid's movies, but movies that could only have been told effectively through animation.
Kon's latest film, Tokyo Godfathers could have been made through normal film-making techniques, but I suspect it would have been a lesser movie as a result. And once again, just because it's animated doesn't make it a kid's film, though I think older children might love its magical tale.
I had the good fortune to get to see this in Shibuya a few month ago during an anime film festival (the director:Satoshi Kon, the soundtrack composer:Keiichi Suzuki and the actress who did the voice of the little girl:Aya Okamoto were there to answer questions! )
They were actually showing it for free in Ebisu garden place a month or two ago - there was a multimedia-art exhibition on and i jsut stuck my head in the door - it was packed, half the people in the cinema were standing!
I would definitely recommend giving this movie a watch.
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