Tokyo Godfathers

Name: Tokyo Godfathers
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Animation
Released: January 16, 2004
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Aya Okamoto, Toru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki

2004

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Columbia TriStar | Release Date: January 16, 2004 | PG-13

Starring: Aya Okamoto, Toru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki

Summary: In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people’s lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches, these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of the abandoned child and the fate of her parents. Along the way, encounters with seeminglyIn modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people’s lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches, these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the mystery of the abandoned child and the fate of her parents. Along the way, encounters with seemingly unrelated events and people force them to confront their own haunted pasts, as they learn to face their future, together. … Expand

Director: Satoshi Kon and Shôgo Furuya

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Comedy, Animation

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 92 min

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Shawn Levy

This is a first-class film that will appeal to anyone who wants to see a plausible, witty, absorbing human story told well -- indeed, told gorgeously. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

A spellbinding piece of Japanese anime from one of the form's new masters, director-writer Satoshi Kon. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

A singularly strange and affecting comedy.

Roger Ebert

An animated film both harrowing and heartwarming, about a story that will never, ever, be remade by Disney. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Ends in magnificent fashion, with skyscrapers bowing to Beethoven's Ninth. It's a stirring ending to a sweet movie. Read full review

J. Hoberman

A welcome exercise in anime weirdness. Read full review

Maitland McDonagh

Features phenomenally beautiful background animation and complex characterizations, and offers glimpses of a poverty-stricken Tokyo underclass that's rarely featured -- let alone portrayed sympathetically -- in mainstream Japanese films. Read full review

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JeffT.

Jun 3, 2006

Half these critics don't know squat. One of the best movies in recent years that's not just extremely entertaining... it also stays with you. You owe it to yourself to watch it.

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alejandro970

Dec 24, 2020

The adventure of 3 homeless who travel all over Tokyo to find the parents of an abandoned baby is one of the wonders of anime created outside the cosmos of Studio Ghibli. To see at ease at Christmas. Merry Christmas and peace on Earth.