FAIRYTALE IN TOKYO: Recently watched Tokyo Godfathers, based on Claw of the Conciliator’s 2006 recommendation. (And yes, now you know exactly how long it takes something to go from the bottom of my Netflix queue to the top.) It’s about three homeless people who find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve. I really, really liked it, despite its sentimentality–the particular combination of sentimentality and harshness and melodrama and gentleness reminded me oddly of Sullivan’s Travels. An old-fashioned approach to moviemaking.

Also, the characters don’t have those giant Hello Kitty anime eyes. They often looked, to my desperately uneducated eyes, somewhat like the uglier caricatures in ukiyo-e. So if the eyes creep you out, don’t worry, Netflix this anyway.