History Anime / TokyoGodfathers

* LaserGuidedKarma: In the end, the gang of teenagers that beat up Gin and the dead homeless man? [[spoiler: A news report in the ending scene say they were arrested for the murder of the homeless man. Because he had just died when they beat his corpse so it looked like they beat him to death.]]

* BerserkButton:
** You can call Hana "Shitty", but never call her an "old man".
** Don't harm a cat in front of Miyuki.

* BruceLeeClone: The leader of the teen delinquents thinks he's one.
* CallingTheOldManOut: In Miyuki's flashback. It did not end well.

* LivingMacGuffin: The baby.

Three [[HomelessHero homeless people]] -- Gin (an [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic]]), Hana (a {{transgender}} woman) and Miyuki (a [[TheRunaway teenage runaway]]) -- find an [[DoorstopBaby abandoned baby]] while digging through trash and spend [[DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime Christmas Eve]] looking for its [[ParentalAbandonment missing parents]].

* ContrivedCoincidence: Far too many to list here without spoiling the whole movie. It never feels cheap, though; it happens so often -- and often in such hilarious and unexpected ways -- that by the time it gets to the truly absurd stuff, the viewer is liable to just roll with it.
** Also somewhat justified; the characters speculate that the baby they are helping is under the protection of God -- and if that actually is the case, then it would make sense that miraculous things would happen to assist them.

** In the first scene, Gin and Hana are in a soup line and Hana asks for double portions because she's "eating for two," complete with her patting her stomach. The audience soon learns that the second helping was for Miyuki. 20 minutes later, however, the protagonists find baby Kiyoko and are boarding a train to take her home, only for the charity worker to pass by on an escalator. He is understandably surprised to see the clearly transgender Hana holding an infant, and the camera pans to him mentally exclaiming "He was eating for two" in a hilarious gag.

* ThanksForTheMammary: Early in the movie, Gin and Miyuki are arguing and wrestling with each other, and at one point, Gin grabs Miyuki's breast. Unsurprisingly, she slugs him for it.

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Sachiko's husband]] after Gin gives him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and he sees what has become of his wife thanks partially to him.
** [[spoiler:Sachiko]] also has one after a lot of effort from Miyuki.

* RecycledInSPACE: Most likely not intentional, but the movie can feel a lot like [[Film/TheBluesBrother The Blues Brothers]] ''IN TOKYO''.

* RecycledInSPACE: Most likely not intentional, but the movie can feel a lot like [[Film/BluesBrother The Blues Brothers]] ''IN TOKYO''.

Three [[HomelessHero homeless people]] -- Gin (the JerkWithAHeartOfGold), Hana (a {{transgender}} woman) and Miyuki ([[TheRunaway a runaway girl]] who doesn't fit any of the usual Japanese teenage girl tropes) -- find an [[DoorstopBaby abandoned baby]] while digging through trash and spend [[DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime Christmas Eve]] looking for its [[ParentalAbandonment missing parents]].

Three [[CrazyHomelessPeople homeless people]] -- Gin (the JerkWithAHeartOfGold), Hana (a {{transgender}} woman) and Miyuki ([[TheRunaway a runaway girl]] who doesn't fit any of the usual Japanese teenage girl tropes) -- find an [[DoorstopBaby abandoned baby]] while digging through trash and spend [[DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime Christmas Eve]] looking for its [[ParentalAbandonment missing parents]].

* CrazyHomelessPeople: None of the characters, really, except for the senile old man whom Gin comforts.

* EarnYourHappyEnding

* WhiteAndGreyMorality: The main protagonists are a trio of homeless people, and despite [[CrazyHomelessPeople the negative stereotype associated with homelessness]], they come off as relatively decent people with sympathetic reasons for their homelessness, and one of them is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold. The closest thing the film has to an antagonist is a desperate, sad woman who stole a baby out of desperation for a family and even she sees the error of her ways.

* CueTheSun: At the end, Hana catches a glimpse of the sunrise in the climax as she [[spoiler descends with the baby, holding onto a banner that a gust of wind leaves them gently floating down to the ground]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Gin is annoyed when Hana names the baby, but is quick to defend "Kiyoko" as a perfectly acceptable name in itself. [[spoiler:Guess what his daughter's name is?]]

* BabyBeMine: The whole plot is kicked off when Sachiko suffers a miscarriage and kidnaps the newborn Kiyoko from the hospital in desperation for a child, only for Kiyoko to end up in a trash pile to be found by the protagonists.

* TheFundamentalist: Miyuki's mother is a religious fundamentalist and is shown praying dramatically during one of her flashbacks.

%%* InMysteriousWays

-->'''Hana:''' That's what your father is! He can't bet, he's spineless, his feet stink and he can't drink! He kills off his wife and daughter to buy sympathy! [...] Debt's a concept you don't even understand! You understand how to troll through garbage cans! And how to get in debt and how to make babies. Though you're not too good at raising them, are you? And your debts you shove off on your wife. Always running away, never doing anything right! Running away's the only racing you ever did!

* RedOniBlueOni: Hana compares the relationship between her and Gin to a story about them.

* CueTheSun: At the end, Hana catches a glimpse of the sunrise as she descends with the baby from the building.

* FatGirl: Played as legitimate characters. There are four handsomely-built ladies in the movie: Kiyoko the ''yakuza'''s daughter, Kiyoko the nurse, the kind Spanish-speaking mother, and Miyuki in flashback.
** In general, the characters in this film have body types that are far more varied and realistic than what's usually seen in anime.

* Not long after he tells Hana and Miyuki his story about how he became a bum, Gin unconsciously contradicts one part of his story when he sees the groom. [[spoiler:This is only the first clue that Gin was just telling a tall tale.]]

* BrickJoke: In the first scene, Gin and Hana are in a soup line and Hana asks for double portions because she's "eating for two," complete with her patting Iher stomach. The audience soon learns that the second helping was for Miyuki. 20 minutes later, however, the protagonists find baby Kiyoko and are boarding a train to take her home, only for the charity worker to pass by on an escalator. He is understandably surprised to see the clearly transgender Hana holding an infant, and the camera pans to him mentally exclaiming "He was eating for two" in a hilarious gag.

* CarChase: During the climax when Sachiko tries to escape with a truck.
* CarFu: During the CarChase, Sachiko uses her truck to crush Gin on his bicycle against a wall.

* CueTheSun: At the end Hana catches a glimpse of the sunrise as she descends with the baby from the building.

* HitmanWithAHeart: The Hispanic assassin set out to kill the Yakuza boss at the wedding takes Miyuki hostage, but then brings her to a kind Hispanic mother who breastfeeds Kiyoko and provides some comfort for Miyuki, and even when he's holding her hostage he's clearly trying to be nice and reassuring toward her.

* IllGirl: Gin's biological daughter, who passed away after [[MyGreatestFailure he failed to raise enough money to pay her medical bills.]] [[spoiler:This is later revealed to be a big fat lie - not only is his daughter alive and kicking, but she ''works as a nurse''.]]
* IllKillYou: Gin boasts that he will kill the groom right before the hitman foils his plan.

* MyGreatestFailure: For Gin, it's getting banned from bike racing due to cheating and thus not being able to pay his [[IllGirl daughter's]] medical bills. [[spoiler: Or so he says. In actual fact it's running up a massive amount of gambling debt and getting loan sharks on his family's tail.]]

** Gin gives one to [[spoiler: Sachiko's husband]], which doubles as one to himself due to the similarities between the characters.
** Consequently, Hana later delivers this message to Gin at the scene where he just found his daughter.
-->'''Hana''': That's what your father is! He can't bet, he's spineless, his feet stink and he can't drink! He kills off his wife and daughter to buy sympathy! [...] Debt's a concept you don't even understand! You understand how to troll through garbage cans! And how to get in debt and how to make babies. Though you're not too good at raising them, are you? And your debts you shove off on your wife. Always running away, never doing anything right! Running away's the only racing you ever did!

* GoodVsGood: There is no true asshole in the film. Characters who seem like mean-spirited are either caring for someone special or are at their very worst a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Although Sachiko endangers the baby, she isn't a villainous person. She's emotionally distraught over [[OutlivingOnesOffspring her own child's death]] and her subsequent estrangement from her husband.]]