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Release year: 2003

Storyline

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.

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Cast

Tôru Emori — Gin
Yoshiaki Umegaki — Hana
Aya Okamoto — Miyuki
Shôzô Îzuka — Ôta

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Did you know

• The number "12-25" (the date of Christmas) appears throughout the film: the number on the key ring, the cab fare (12,250 yen), a stopped alarm clock, the address in the newspaper ad, the cab license plate.

• Toward the beginning of the movie, when the trio passes by a convenience store, in the background you can see the theatrical posters for Perfect Blue (1997), Millennium Actress (2001), and Tokyo Godfathers itself. All three films were directed by Satoshi Kon.

• In this film, buildings that look like faces appear in over a dozen scenes, sometimes representing the feelings of the characters. Satoshi Kon describes this in his "Tokyo Godfathers Miscellaneous Notes" as follows: "When I bought my new digital camera, I started taking pictures of such 'faces of the buildings' for fun, but I thought it would be a shame to let it end up as just a hobby. so I decided to use them in this film as symbols of the pantheistic gods, the eight million gods that have existed in Japan since ancient times."