Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are three homeless friends who have formed a kind of makeshift family structure. One night, they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a garbage dump. Hana convinces the others to keep it overnight. The next day, using a key found with the baby, they start tracking down the parents, with many adventures along the way.
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February 09, 2016
Hana tends to swoon into stereotype, her theatricality and campiness infecting the other non-hetero characters here, with so many of them wailing or sobbing. The story's comedy and pathos can be similarly overwrought, too.February 17, 2012
Japanese animator Satoshi Kon has a striking sense of composition, but I'm more impressed by his storytelling skills.September 07, 2008
Takes anime to a whole new level.December 09, 2013
In one sense the plot involves returning stolen goods to a thief, but Tokyo Godfathers is really about longing -- for family, for children, for parents and for the lost past.March 25, 2004
One of the most moving, enjoyable and wholly unconventional Christmas stories to come along in a long time.December 07, 2007
The score grates in places but the script hits the mark, with the potty-mouthed vagrants certain to be a hit with older children.April 03, 2006
Depois do brilhante Millenium Actress, Kon conta uma história bem mais simples, mas igualmente tocante e mágica, brindando o público com uma belíssima animação de tirar o fôlego.December 09, 2013
Tokyo Godfathers becomes a clever and well-written parody of Christ's nativity.December 09, 2013
A likeably larky Yuletide yarn.December 06, 2005
It's a modern-day fable with a big heart...December 09, 2013
No amount of shoehorned-in razzle-dazzle can keep this forced fable from feeling like a shadow of Kon's early work.February 27, 2004
Demonstrates an idiosyncratic human touch. Kon is unafraid of the unseemly and unsightly.