Round 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. In this film, the trans woman Hana seizes her opportunity to be an adopted mother to Kiyoko, whom she and her two friends discover in an alley on Christmas Eve. For 10 points, a homeless trio rescue (10[1])a baby in the title city of what animated film by Satoshi Kon? ■END■ (10[1])

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