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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 With a Heart of Gold]]), Hana (a [[Transsexual]]) and Miyuki ([[The Runaway|a runaway girl]] who doesn't fit any of the usual Japanese teenage girl tropes) -- find an [[Door ~~Stop~~ Baby|abandoned baby]] while digging through trash and spend [[Do They Know ~~Its~~ Christmas Time|Christmas Eve]] looking for its [[Parental Abandonment|missing parents]].

Three [[Crazy Homeless People|homeless people]] -- Gin (the [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]), Hana (a [[Transsexual]]) and Miyuki ([[The Runaway|a runaway girl]] who doesn't fit any of the usual Japanese teenage girl tropes) -- find an [[Door Step Baby|abandoned baby]] while digging through trash and spend [[Do They Know It's Christmas Time?|Christmas Eve]] looking for its [[Parental Abandonment|missing parents]].

Contains a lot of [[Contrived Coincidence|contrived coincidences]] (miracles, really, but always within the realm of possibility), but that's kind of the point. In the meantime, viewers get a glimpse of a side of Tokyo that is rarely seen in anime.

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* [[Crazy Homeless People]]: None of the characters, really, except for the senile old man whom Gin comforts.

* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: The driving force of the movie, and proof that [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].

* [[Do They Know ~~Its~~ Christmas Time]]

* [[Do They Know It's Christmas Time?]]

* [[Door ~~Stop~~ Baby]]

* [[Door Step Baby]]

* [[Drag Queen]]: Hana's former vocation. She left the biz after getting married.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]

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* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Never ones to be impolite, Japanese women take off their shoes before they plunge to their deaths.

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Gin.

* [[Long Lost Relative]]: Hana and her "mother" (drag mentor), {{spoiler|Gin and his daughter}}, and {{spoiler|Miyuki and her father.}}

* [[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.

* [[Mama Bear]]: Hana.

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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Not just the baby that they find, but Gin's abandonment of his own family.

* [[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.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Hana compares the relationship between her and Gin to a story about them.

* [[Shout Out]]: Akio Ohtsuka gets a brief cameo as a [[Black Jack (Manga)|doctor.]]

** Much of the plot is taken straight from the [[John Wayne]] classic ''The Three Godfathers''.

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* [[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.}}

* [[Well Done Son Guy]]: It appears that Miyuki's father was perpetually cold and callous to her... from [[Unreliable Narrator|her perspective]], anyway.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: It appears that Miyuki's father was perpetually cold and callous to her... from [[Unreliable Narrator|her perspective]], anyway.

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Inverted, as Hana deliberately plays the villain to draw two characters together.

* [[Yakuza]]