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''[[Tokyo Godfathers]]'' is a 2003 [[Anime]] movie directed by [[Satoshi Kon]]; the film is heavily based on the silent movie ''The Three Godfathers'', which is about a trio of bandits who discover a foundling. This dramatic comedy is a stark departure from Kon's more [[Mind Screw|mind-bending]] works, but it lacks none of his atmospheric touch, keen social commentary, and insight on the human condition.
Three [[Crazy Homeless People|homeless people]] -- Gin (the [[Jerk
Contains a lot of [[Contrived Coincidence
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* [[Arc Number]]: 1225 (which refers to December 25).
* [[Bilingual Dialogue]]
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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]
* [[Ethnic Menial Labor]]: Hispanic in Japan.
* [[Fat Girl]]: Played as legitimate characters. There are four [[Big Beautiful Woman|handsomely-built ladies]] in the movie: Kiyoko the ''yakuza'' 's daughter, Kiyoko the nurse, the kind Spanish-speaking mother, and Miyuki in flashback.
* [[Girly Run]]: Used by Hana.
* [[Gossipy Hens]]
* [[Happily Ever After]]: By the end of the movie, {{spoiler|the baby is returned to its real parents, all three homeless characters have been reunited with their families, Sakiko and her husband have started over...and it turns out the trio have been carrying around a winning lottery ticket the whole time.}}
* [[Hitman
* [[In Mysterious Ways]]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Of course baby Kiyoko will survive anything, including the Japanese winter.
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Never ones to be impolite, Japanese women take off their shoes before they plunge to their deaths.
* [[Jerk
* [[Long-Lost Relative]]: Hana and her "mother" (drag mentor), {{spoiler|Gin and his daughter}}, and {{spoiler|Miyuki and her father.}}
* [[MacGuffin Girl]]: The baby, to some degree.
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* [[Magic Realism]]
* [[Magnetic Plot Device]]: The baby again.
* [[Mission
* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted hard. The trio meet (or already know) multiple Kiyokos by the end of the movie.
* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]
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* [[Queer People Are Funny]]: "I am a mistake made by God!"
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Hana compares the relationship between her and Gin to a story about them.
* [[Shout
** Much of the plot is taken straight from the [[John Wayne]] classic ''The Three Godfathers''.
* [[The Tramp]]: all of them
* [[Tokyo Is the Center of
* [[Tokyo Tower]]: Seen dancing, along with other Tokyo buildings, at the start of the closing credits.
* [[
* [[Trashcan Bonfire]]
* [[Truth in Television]]: Some of the events in the movie were based on real-life incidents that occurred in Japan around the time the film was made. {{spoiler|The scene in which Gin is beaten up by a group of teenagers was based on an similar incident involving a hobo being beaten up by teenagers. Miyuki's troubled backstory was based on an incident in which a teenage girl stabbed her father after getting into an argument with him about which TV channel they wanted to watch.}}
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