Tokyo Godfathers
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| Directed by | Satoshi Kon |
| Produced by | Masao Maruyama |
| Written by | Satoshi Kon Keiko Nobumoto |
| Starring | Aya Okamoto, Toru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki |
| Music by | Keiichi Suzuki Moonriders |
| Distributed by | Madhouse Studios (Japan), Sony Pictures (USA) |
| Release date(s) | 29 December 2003 (Japan) 16 January 2004 (USA) |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Language | Japanese |
| Budget | ? |
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Tokyo Godfathers (東京ゴッドファーザーズ) is a 2003 anime film by Japanese director Satoshi Kon. Tokyo Godfathers is Kon's third animated movie and was written and directed by him. Keiko Nobumoto, noted for being the creator of the Wolf's Rain series and a head scriptwriter for Cowboy Bebop, was also involved in the writing of the movie. It has also been broadcast across East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia by the anime television network, Animax. Tokyo Godfathers is 92 minutes long and has an aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
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[edit] Storyline
One Christmas eve, three homeless people (a gruff, middle-aged hobo, a transvestite, and a run-away girl) discover an abandoned newborn while foraging through some trash. Desposited with the baby is a note asking the finder to take good care of the unnamed baby and a bag containing clues to the parent's identity.
The unlikely group is a pseudo-family with a history: Gin (ギン) is an alcoholic and a gambler who has estranged himself from his wife and daughter; Hana (ハナ) a.k.a. Uncle Bag is an ex-drag queen whose lover died and who aspires to be a mother; Miyuki (ミユキ) is a sullen teen who stabbed her policeman father over a misunderstanding. Hana believes that Kiyoko (清子), the baby, is a gift from Heaven and convinces the others to keep her for the night. Together, in their quest to find the infant's parents, the friends become closer and begin to act like a real family, even to the point that Miyuki has a fantasy in which the four of them have moved into a house, adopted little Kiyoko, and act like the family she always wished she had.
The story is patterned and partially named after the 1948 John Ford Western film Three Godfathers, in which a trio of thieves come to be responsible for a newborn baby.
[edit] Cast
- Toru Emori - Gin (voice)
- Aya Okamoto - Miyuki (voice)
- Yoshiaki Umegaki - Hana (voice)
- Shozo Izuka - Oota (voice)
[edit] Trivia
- In one scene, three women are heard saying "Of course not, of course not!". In Satoshi Kon's TV series Paranoia Agent, the three women star in the episode "ECT" with the same catchphrase.
- There are innumberable reocurring instances of the digits 12-25 (i.e. the date of Christmas), such as on license plates, in phone numbers, on taxi meters, and on lottery tickets.
[edit] External links
- Tokyo Godfathers at the Internet Movie Database
- Tokyo Godfathers Review at Anime+ Podcast
- Tokyo Godfathers Review at Animeworld
