Packet 3: Tossup 10

After witnessing her friend get hit in the face by a book, a woman in this film asks “what are you doing to Dostoyevsky?” A traditional children’s story inspired this film’s scene in which a woman compares herself to a “blue devil” who helped a “red devil” befriend villagers. On Shakina Nayfack’s recommendation, Kate Bornstein played that woman in this film’s English dub. This film does not use subtitles for the Spanish dialogue of a dark-skinned couple whom the protagonists meet after witnessing an attempted hit on a portly gangster. At the climax of this loose remake of a film by (*) John Ford, dawn breaks just as a woman (-5[1])floats to the ground, after a gust of wind prevents her from plunging off the side of a hospital. (-5[1])In this film, the trans woman Hana seizes her (10[2])opportunity to be an (10[1])adopted mother to Kiyoko, (10[2])whom she and her two friends (10[1])discover in an alley on Christmas Eve. For 10 points, (10[1])a homeless trio rescue (10[2])a baby (10[1])in the title city (10[1])of what animated (-5[1])film by Satoshi Kon? ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

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