Tokyo Godfathers (movie)
Alternative title:
Héroes al rescate (Spanish)
Los Padrinos de Tokio (Spanish)
Os Padrinhos de Tóquio (Portuguese)
Rodzice chrzestni z Tokio (Polish)
Tokiói keresztapák
Однажды в Токио (Russian)
東京ゴッドファーザーズ (Japanese)
東京教父 (Chinese (Taiwan))
Objectionable content:
Significant
Plot Summary:
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people residing in Tokyo -- middle-aged alcoholic Gin, teenage runaway Miyuki, and former drag queen Hana -- were looking through a dumpster for Christmas gifts, when cries from a baby drew their attention. Believing this was a gift from God, Hana, not being able to have a child of her own, vowed to take care of the abandoned baby girl. They then, together, begin to search for the baby's mother. Through Christmas Eve to the end of the year, they encounter a variety of characters and find people they thought they'd never see again.

User Ratings:
2228 ratings have been given [details]
Running time:
92 minutes
Vintage:
2003
Premiere date:
2003-08-30 (New York - Big Apple Anime Fest)
2003-10-02 (San Diego Asian Film Festival)
2003-11-08 (Japan)
2003-12-05 (Los Angeles, California)
2004-01-16 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
2004-01-16 (USA [limited release])
2004-08-13 (Taiwan)
2008-06-02 (Latin America - Animax (Reciclo))
Release dates: We have 5
Official website:
Madhouse Official Tokyo Godfathers Website (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 4
Review:
Tokyo Godfathers (Sep 16, 2003)
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Blu-ray + DVD combo |
Tokyo Godfathers (BD+DVD) 2020-06-02 (from $17.96) |
DVD (Region 1) |
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Director: Satoshi Kon Music: Keiichi Suzuki Original story: Satoshi Kon Art Director: Nobutaka Ike Sound Director: Masafumi Mima Co-Director: Shōgo Furuya Director of Photography: Katsutoshi Sugai Background Art: Hisashi Ikeda Kikuyo Yano Masako Okada Mie Kasai Mitsuo Yoshino Naruyo Kiriyama Shinichi Uehara Takashi Omori Youichi Watanabe Casting Management: Tsutomu Kashiwakura Chief animator: Kenichi Konishi Co-Producer: Satoki Toyada Color design: Satoshi Hashimoto Computer Programming: Hiroshi Yamaoka Digital Optical Recording: Noboru Nishio Ending Title: Yukio Kumagai (Nihon Effect Center) Film Development, Timing: Hiroaki Hirabayashi Finish Animation: Bo-Ra Choi (DR Busan) Dong Wook Baek (DR Busan) Eu-Jene Jung (DR Movie) Eun Jin Hong (DR Busan) Eun Suk Jeong (DR Movie) Hee Jung Jung (DR Busan) Hee Kyoung Choi (DR Busan) Hee Kyung Park (DR Movie) Hye Mi Shin (DR Busan) Hyun Ji An (DR Movie) Hyun-Woo Lee (DR Busan) Jeong Ah Yim (DR Busan) Ji Sung Choi (DR Busan) Jin Young Kwon (DR Movie) Jung Ah Park (DR Movie) Jung Eun Kim (DR Movie) Jung Eun Lee (DR Movie) Ki Jeong Choi (DR Busan) Mi Hwa Lee (DR Busan) Mi Yeon Lee (DR Movie) Min Ju Kim (DR Busan) Saeng Hoi Seo (DR Busan) Seung Hee Song (DR Movie) Su Im Oh (DR Busan) Su-Ra Choi (DR Busan) Sun I Choi (DR Movie) Sung Hee Seo (DR Busan) Yong Kyoung Park (DR Movie) Youn Suk Na (DR Movie) Young Shim Lee (DR Movie) Young Sun Choi (DR Busan) Yun Hee Park (DR Movie) Finish Check: Azusa Sasaki Fumie Mori Kenji Takaoka Noriko Kikui Rie Fujiwara Takahiro Mogi Yoshinori Horikawa Yuya Nishida In-Between Animation: Chae Ryung Yu (DR Movie) Chul-Ho Jang (DR Movie) Eriko Kubokawa (Madhouse) Eun Hee An (DR Movie) Eun Mi Pyun (DR Movie) Eun Soon Byun (DR Movie) Ga Jin Lee (Madhouse) Hee Eun Choi (DR Movie) Hee Jin Jung (DR Movie) Hidehiko Sawada (Madhouse) Houng Mi-Young (Madhouse) Hye-Soon Byun (DR Movie) Hyeon Soo Joung (DR Movie) Hyo-Sun Lee (DR Movie) Hyun Ju Park (DR Movie) Ikumi Fukumoto (Madhouse) Jee Young Soung (DR Movie) Jeong-Hui Kim (DR Movie) Ji Eun Kim (DR Movie) Jin Ju Go (DR Movie) Kanae Miyoshi (Madhouse) Kaori Miyazaki (Madhouse) Kayo Ikeda (Madhouse) Keiko Yamashita (Madhouse) Kyung Seok Park (DR Movie) Maki Saitō (Madhouse) Makoto Yoshimura (Madhouse) Masato Tezuka (Madhouse) Megumi Tonegawa (Madhouse) Mi Ok Lee (DR Movie) Michiko Nagano (Madhouse) Naoko Masui (Madhouse) Natsumi Okumoto (Madhouse) Seok Sun Shin (DR Movie) Seon Ea Kim (DR Movie) So Kyung Lee (DR Movie) Suk-Hwa Park (DR Movie) Taiki Imamura (Madhouse) Yeong Mi Heo (DR Movie) Yoshie Fujiwara (Madhouse) Yoshihiro Kaneko (Madhouse) Yurika Higashizaka (DR Movie) Key Animation: Akiko Asaki Hideki Hamasu Hiroko Kazui Hiroyuki Nakamura Hisashi Mori Kaichi Honma Kazunobu Hoshi Kazutaka Ozaki Kenichi Konishi Kumiko Kawana Masashi Andō Megumi Kagawa Michiyo Suzuki Miwa Sasaki Norio Matsumoto Shigeru Fujita Shinji Hashimoto Shinji Ōtsuka Shōgo Furuya Takaaki Yamashita Takeshi Honda Tetsuya Kumagai Toshiyuki Inoue Lab Desk: Yūko Suzuki Lab Management: Takehisa Kawamata Music Production: Misako Noda Optical Re-Recording: Akira Toshisawa (Aoi Studio) Photography: Chiemi Irisa (Madhouse) Hiroshi Murakami Hiroshi Ōizumi (Madhouse) Hiroshi Tajima (Studio Ipse) Hitoshi Yamaguchi (Madhouse) Masashi Nagao (Madhouse) Masayuki Narai (Madhouse) Mayumi Takarada (Studio Ipse) Norio Matsuda (Studio Ipse) Osamu Ishikuri (Studio Ipse) Saori Kibe (Studio Ipse) Satoko Kobashikawa (Studio Ipse) Teruhisa Mizuhara (Studio Ipse) Tomoharu Hosaka (Studio Ipse) Tomotake Ishikawa Tsuyoshi Hanzawa (Studio Ipse) Yukihiro Masumoto (Madhouse) Yukiya Imamura (Studio Ipse) Production producer: Satoki Toyoda Recording Assistant: Yūji Tagami (Aoi Studio) Sound Effects: Shizuo Kurahashi Sound Effects Assistant: Hiromune Kurahashi (Sound Box) Sound Production: Tomoko Nakajima Title Logo: Kyoko Yamashita | Aya Okamoto as Tōru Emori as Yoshiaki Umegaki as Kōichi Yamadera as Kyōko Terase as Mamiko Noto as Satomi Koorogi as Seizō Katō as Yūsaku Yara as Akio Ōtsuka as Hiroya Ishimaru as Inuko Inuyama as Kanako Yahara as Rie Shibata as Rikiya Koyama as Ryūji Saikachi as Shōzō Iizuka as | |||
Animation Production: Madhouse Cable Broadcasting: J:COM Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment Film Developing: Imagica Recording Studio: Aoi Studio Sound Effects: Sound Box Sound Production: Techno Sound | ||||
ADR Director: Michael Sinterniklaas ADR Writer: Oscar Garcia Audio Mixing: Oscar Garcia Casting Director: Stephanie Sheh Dialogue Editing: Oscar Garcia Printmaster: Gary Coppola Production manager: Clark Cheng | Candice Moore as Darren Pleavin as John Avner as Russell Wait as Shakina Nayfack as Victoria Grace as Kari Wahlgren as Kate Bornstein as David Manis as Gloria Garayua as Kirk Thornton as Larissa Gallagher as Marc Thompson as Michael Sinterniklaas as Orlando Rios as | |||
ADR Production: NYAV Post (GKids dub) Distributor: Shout! Factory (2020) Licensed by: GKIDS (US and Canada) Manga Entertainment (UK; 2018) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Umbrella Entertainment (Australia and New Zealand) | ||||
Adaptation: Catherine Valduriez | Guylaine Gibert as Jean-Marc Delhausse as Martin Spinhayer as Dominique Wagner as Maia Baran as Philippe Allard as Alexandra Correa as Carine Seront as Daniel Dury as David Manet as Didier Colfs as Lionel Bourguet as Michel de Warzée as Olivier Francart as Philippe Allard as Sébastien Hebrant as Tony Beck as | |||
Distributor: Sony Dubbing: Dubbing Brothers (Belgium) | ||||
(none) | Gemma Ibáñez as Gerardo Reyero as Jordi Ribes as Laura Ayala as Miguel Angel Ghigliazza as Miguel Ángel Jenner as Alicia Laorden as José Antonio Jiménez as Juan Miguel Valdivieso as Juana Beuter as Maria Rosa Guillén as Vicky Martínez as Alejandro Villeli as Cesar Arias as Eduard Doncos as Elisa Beuter as Enric Isasi-Isasmendi as Fina Rius as Jorge Roig as Jose Gilberto Vilchis as José Javier Serrano as Juana Beuter as Laura Torres as Magda Giner as Manuel Osto as Maria Fernanda Morales as Maria Rosa Guillén as Monica Manjarrez as Mónica Villaseñor as Patricia Acevedo as Rebeca Manriquez as Ricardo Mendoza as Roberto Mendiola as Santiago Cortés as Sylvia Garcel as Fina Rius José Antonio Jiménez José Javier Serrano José Luis Campos Juan Miguel Valdivieso Juana Beuter Luis García Márquez Manuel Osto Maria Rosa Guillén Mario Arpal Santiago Cortés Susana Macías | |||
Broadcaster: Animax Canal MAX (Latin America) Canal UCR Cinemax Latin America ETC...TV (Chile) HBO Latin America (Latin America) HBO Mundi (Latin America) Multipremier (Latin America) Internet Streaming: Filmin (Spain) HBO Max (Latin America) Netflix (Spain) Qubit.tv (subtitled; expired) Subtitles: SDI Media (Netflix; Spain) | ||||
Dubbing Director: Vittorio De Angelis | Angelo Nicotra as Maria Letizia Scifoni as Sergio Di Stefano as Isabella Pasanisi as Rossella Acerbo as Sandro Sardone as Doriana Chierici as Eleonora De Angelis as Fabrizio Manfredi as Gabriele Lopez as Manlio De Angelis as Massimiliano Virgilii as Rossella Acerbo as Wladimiro Grana as | |||
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Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | ||||
(none) | Distributor: Anime Essentials | |||
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(none) | Distributor: Imperial CinePix | |||
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(none) | Antônio Moreno as Cassius Romero as Priscila Concépcion as Carlos Silveira as Luiz Antônio Lobue as Marcelo Pissardini as Márcia Regina as Tatiane Keplmair as Affonso Amajones as Cláudia Carli as Guilherme Lopes as Rodrigo Andreatto as | |||
ADR Studio: Dublavídeo | ||||
(none) | Licensed by: Proware Multimedia International Co., Ltd. | |||
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