festive cheer: a trio of unlikely guardian angels
on the Christmas Eve streets of a great metropolis...
For a bittersweet twist on the Three Wise Men, check out the darkly charming Tokyo Godfathers, the penultimate film from anime grandmaster Satoshi Kon, who died aged only 46 in 2010.
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people — themselves a little family — come upon an infant abandoned on the streets of Tokyo, and care for her while they attempt to find her…