Tokyo Godfathers
Movie • 2003 • Animation
ReportDuring a Christmas Eve in Tokyo, three homeless people, middle-aged alcoholic Gin, former drag queen Hana, and dependent runaway girl Miyuki, discover an abandoned newborn while looking through the garbage. With only a handful of clues to the baby's identity, the three misfits search the city to find its parents.
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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Miyuki is a teenage runaway.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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SiRenfield
Miyuki accused her father of abandoning their pet cat but it turns out to be untrue
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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The plot hinges on this…wellll sort of [MAJOR SPOILERS] we later find out that Kyoko wasn’t abandoned by her parents but rather was abducted from the hospital and it was her kidnappers that left her in the dump. However another character still abandoned his family and doesn’t see his daughter until years later
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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kaiaaa
In the beginning of the film an adult hits a teenager.
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mxtia
Mentioned (offscreen)
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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mxtia
One character is an alcoholic
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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kaiaaa
One of the main characters is an alcoholic.
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There is a syringe on the floor of an alley at one point that presumably implies drug use, but no illegal drugs are used onscreen.
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Does a cat die?
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Can confirm the cat survived there’s a note later in the movie that reveals Angel came back
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Assault
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Briefly, at the start where Gin gropes Miyuki in the middle of a scuffle
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Hana slaps a woman for (allegedly) abandoning her child.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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SiRenfield
Maybe not necessarily “bullying” but a homeless character is brutally beaten by a gang of teenage thugs
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Bodily Harm
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Does a head get squashed?
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kaiaaa
Someone is badly beaten up. They get injured in their head.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Maktopus
We only see the after math of a bloodied knife and an injured person in a flashback. We don't see the stabbing happen. It is not fatal.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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kaiaaa
Someone gets a black eye from being beaten up.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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kaiaaa
~0:23:30-0:24:10 someone is found stuck under a car. They might be struggling to breathe.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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kaiaaa
Not sure, but someone is beaten up during the film. Some time after that they are shown injured and there is some blood on their lip.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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It almost happens in the climax but everyone involved miraculously makes it out okay
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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SiRenfield
A teenage girl is briefly groped at the beginning by an older man (who’s also her father figure) who insults her breast size
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Is an infant abducted?
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Yes, it's one of the major plot points revealing themselves later in the film
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Death
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Does someone die?
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An old man while living on the streets and dies peacefully having been taken care of before passing.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does a family member die?
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SiRenfield
SPOILERS: Someone claims that their family died but it later turns out he made that part up
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Demii
A young girl is held hostage at gunpoint.
A baby is kidnapped.
A baby is kidnapped.
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Fear
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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A river is shown briefly.
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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SiRenfield
Not shown directly on screen but the main plot involves caring for an infant so this happens at least a couple of times
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Is there audio gore?
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Blood dripping is heard for an intense scene.
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Does someone spit?
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Maktopus
At the beginning of the film someone on a balcony spits below to catch the attention of those below. It's unclear whether or not it touched anyone.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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SiRenfield
Not truly as the characters initially consider handing off Kiyoko to the police but decide not to. That said the portrayal of police is more neutral overall, AT BEST they’re harmlessly inept and sometimes a minor obstacle such as Miyuki’s father
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Is there incarceration?
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SiRenfield
If there were any consequences for the main antagonist, it’s not shown. Although reportedly there is a news report where the hoodlums that brutalized Gin are arrested off screen
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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Maktopus
Hana is iconic for being a well-depicted trans character.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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SiRenfield
Might depend on the translation though
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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SiRenfield
Hana is at the receiving end of transphobia ,but not deadnaming
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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miramarco
One of the characters steps over a syringe and breaks it.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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AcousticAngel
There are two
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Mental Health
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Maktopus
A trans woman mentions wishing she could be the mother of her own child by some miracle. It is unclear if this is a source of body dysphoria so much as it is gender dysphoria in general.
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The same person twice.
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auracrazykoko
Someone does attempt suicide, but they are stopped.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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There are however a couple of times where characters have a good cry.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Maktopus
A suicidal person says "let me die" while being prevented from doing so.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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SiRenfield
Pretty much the only Satoshi Kon movie where it’s not like that for most of the runtime, but there’s still at least one dream sequence
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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SiRenfield
Yeah if you are triggered by that sort of thing this movie is DEFINITELY not for you since it’s constant throughout
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Maktopus
There are a few instances of traffic noises and car crashes
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Maktopus
Toward the beginning, movie posters can be seen in the background for Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress, other films by Satoshi Kon.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Off-screen
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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SiRenfield
Plot centers around returning a baby to her birth parents
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Does someone miscarry?
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miramarco
(Spoiler alert) A mother talks about the stillbirth of her baby.
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Prejudice
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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OJAndToothpaste
There are a few minor Hispanic characters, but they are not really drawn or written as stereotypes.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Jade37
There’s a fatphobic weight comment but it’s hidden in another language. One of the female protagonists is a young homeless runaway. Flashbacks show that she used to be at a higher weight when living at home. Later in the story a woman sees a photo of this girl during that time and asks her how she got so thin in a way that implies the weight loss was a good thing (“show me”) - unbeknownst to her, the girl is starving because she is homeless. Granted, the woman asks the girl this question in Spanish and there were no subtitles for the Spanish dialogue, but if you speak Spanish you’ll catch it.
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Demii
One of the characters is a transwoman and is misgendered and mistaken for a man throughout the movie.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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Demii
"homo" and the F-slur is used throughout the movie towards a trans woman.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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SiRenfield
Hana and her foster mom/mentor survive the film's runtime
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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gotnoculture
Some transphobic comments towards a main character
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Is there hate speech?
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DoritoPrincess
The F-slur is used frequently towards the character Hana, who is a trans woman
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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MagitekVai
A 21 year old woman marries a man in his 40s
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Religious
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Is religion discussed?
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SiRenfield
The opening takes place in a church (with the homeless characters attending a midnight mass to recieve food) and there’s frequent parallels drawn to the Nativity. There’s also some themes highlighting religious hypocrisy since the preacher at the beginning shows up later being a drunk asshole to our homeless protagonists
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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SiRenfield
Mostly no, there is mild female nudity in the form of a couple of scenes that involve breastfeeding but’s presented as non-sexual as possible.
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Not really / not explicitly, however as mentioned under "is there sexual assault?" Gin gropes Miyuki towards the beginning when they're having a fight, and it's later heavily implied that Gin sees Miyuki as a daughter figure, and the implications that he groped a girl he saw as a daughter figure could be really uncomfortable or potentially triggering for survivors of incest.
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Are there nude scenes?
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SiRenfield
There is mild nudity in the form of breasts but in a non-sexual context
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Maktopus
Two trans women briefly discuss the past sharing memories of those who died of AIDS.
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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SiRenfield
The entire movie centers on characters in this situation.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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SiRenfield
There’s admittedly some mild implications that Santa doesn’t exist. That said though, this movie has a PG-13 rating (at least in the US) so it’s not recommend for little kids in the first place
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Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
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apatheticAuthor
Spoilers?
Not really but a man is found stuck under a car after it rolled on top of him
In a car chase scene, a character is hanging off the side of a vehicle which the driver pushes into another vehicle
Not really but a man is found stuck under a car after it rolled on top of him
In a car chase scene, a character is hanging off the side of a vehicle which the driver pushes into another vehicle
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Does a car crash?
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GarageOleanders
A couple gets hit by a miniature car as a gag at ~7:40
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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OJAndToothpaste
There's a pretty intense car chase scene towards the end of the film.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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SiRenfield
Mild blood in a few spots
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Is there gun violence?
37 supporters
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kaiaaa
there is a gun violence scene at 0:28:00-0:29:30. Someone is shot and people are threatened with guns.
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