Showtimes: 6/20, 6:30pm and 6/22, 6:30pm at the Anthology [BUY TICKETS]

JOSEE, THE TIGER AND THE FISH wheels into action when college student, Tsuneo (Satoshi Tsumabuki), hears rumors at his job about a crazy old lady who pushes a baby carriage around town. No one knows what's in the carriage, but speculations range from money to drugs. But it's Tsuneo who discovers that what's in the carriage is the old woman's knife-wielding granddaughter, Josee (Chizuru Ikewaki). Slowly, Tsuneo's life gets wrapped up in the housebound world of the old woman and her scrappy "mobility-challenged" charge.

Despite the grandmother's treatment of her, Josee's overwhelming confidence is an antidote to Tsuneo's spineless, weak-willed college-boy existence. She may be a pain in the butt, trapped in the house by her grandma who doesn't want anyone to know she exists, but she's the most fully alive person that he knows.

A chronicle of the brief friendship between Tsuneo and Josee, JTF, doesn't pull any punches in depicting what happens to someone who takes up with a person with very special needs. At the same time the movie has a lot more confidence in the average human being than is currently trendy. Bittersweet, funny, and honest, JTF is the kind of movie where you walk out feeling a lot better about humanity than when you walked in.