Light and refreshing? Son, you need to watch
Tokyo Godfathers. It's about three homeless people - a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum - who find a baby in a dumpster on christmas, and start tracking down the parents. So many brilliant characters, awesome sense of humour, takes everything lightly and is just damn fun all the way through, and even manages to squeeze in some good action scenes. Beats all of the Gibli movies if you ask me.