Tokyo Godfathers (東京ゴッドファーザーズ Tokyo Goddofazazu) is a 2003 anime film by Japanese director Satoshi Kon.

Tokyo Godfathers is Kon's third animated movie, which he wrote and directed. Keiko Nobumoto, noted for being the creator of the Wolf's Rain series and a head scriptwriter for Cowboy Bebop, was also involved in the film's production.

One Christmas eve, three homeless people (a gruff, middle-aged hobo, a transvestite, and a run-away girl) discover an abandoned newborn while foraging through some trash. Desposited with the baby is a note asking the finder to take good care of the unnamed baby and a bag containing clues to the parent's identity. Using pictures of the baby's parents and a club's card found in the bag, the trio set out to find the baby's parents, even though the transvestite, Hana (ハナ, Flower), wants to keep the baby since it makes her feel like a mother. Gin (ギン, Silver), an alcoholic, knows that they can never give the baby a good life and insists that they return it. Hana eventually agrees and they set off to the address on the card with little Kiyoko (清子) (Hana named the baby "pure girl" since they found her on Christmas Eve, the purest night of the year).

Along the way, Gin tells Hana that he used to have a wife and daughter, before he was an alcoholic. He made money by racing bicycles, but when his daughter became ill, he threw a race to get the money for her medicine. He was disqualified, and his wife and daughter died. The group, after some time, come across a man who is trapped under his car. After they free him, he gratefully agrees to take them to the club, where his daughter (also named Kiyoko) is getting married.

The baby begins to cry and the runaway, Miyuki (ミユキ), takes her into the bathroom to change her diaper. Gin becomes angry when he sees the groom and tells Hana that the groom was the one who convinced him to throw the race. The groom, meanwhile, tells them that the woman in the picture (the baby's mother) was someone who used to come to the club named Sachiko. He gives them Sachiko's address, but the party is interrupted when a maid is revealed to be a hitman in disguise.

After unsuccessfully attempting to shoot the bride's father, the hitman kidnaps Miyuki and Kiyoko and takes them back to his home where he leaves them with his much warmer wife. While there, Miyuki shows the wife some pictures of her family including her policeman father, religious mother, and her favorite cat, named Angel. Miyuki then begins to cry and tells the wife that she ran away from home after stabbing her father.

Meanwhile, Hana and Gin have an argument over what to do next. Hana wants to follow the hitman to rescue the kidnapped girls. Gin wants to call the police. Hana yells at him and calls a taxi and tells the driver to take him where he drove the hitman. Gin, meanwhile, finds an almost dead man lying in the street. The two of them rest in a park for a while, while Gin examines the picture of Sachiko and her husband. Just as he recognizes the background of the picture, some teenagers show up and beat him severely.

Miyuki, meanwhile, has a dream that begins with her stabbing her father and accusing him of getting rid of Angel. Her father then turns into Gin, her mother turns into Hana, and "Angel" is shown as the baby Kiyoko. Hana finds the girls and they go off to find a place to stay the night. Hana takes them to a club he used to work at, where he is warmly greeted home by his "mother" (another drag queen who raised him). Gin, who was found by another member of the club, is also at the bar. Hana and his mother talk about the death of Hana's boyfriend and how Hana left the club.

Gin tells Hana where the picture was taken and they go to Sachiko's old house. They find out that Sachiko's marriage with her husband was not a happy one, and Miyuki finds a piece in an old paper from her parents, asking her to come home. Miyuki tries to call her father, but is too scared to speak to him. Hana is injured by a runaway ambulance and is taken to the hospital, where Gin finds his daughter (also named Kiyoko), who is alive and working there as a nurse. From their conversation together, Hana realizes that Gin lied to him and was never a motorbike racer. Instead, he owned a bicycle shop and ran out on his family. Hana becomes angry and tells Gin's daughter about her father's lies and storms out. Miyuki follows with Kiyoko.

As they consider taking the baby to the police, they find Sachiko, standing at the edge of a bridge about to commit suicide. They stop her and angrily yell at her for abandoning her baby. Sachiko insists that her husband got rid of the baby without her knowledge; they return it happily. Meanwhile, Gin sees a "Missing" notice at the hospital for a baby that looks exactly like Kiyoko. He finds Sachiko's husband and realizes that Sachiko stole Kiyoko from the hospital. He finds Hana and Miyuki and together they chase down Sachiko.

Racing to the top of a building, Sachiko tells the trio how her own baby miscarried and she stole another baby, believing that it would make her marriage better. Ignoring her husband's shouts to stop, Sachiko attempts to jump from the building. The group stops her. They tell her to think of the baby, and the baby seems to say "I want to go home" aloud. Sachiko, startled, accidentally drops the baby off of the building and Hana jumps after it. A strong wind blows upward, however, and Hana and Kiyoko reach the ground unharmed. The homeless people are taken to the hospital, where Kiyoko's parents want to make them Kiyoko's godparents. The police inspector in charge of finding Kiyoko lets them in and looks extremely surprised to see Miyuki. She stares back at him and whispers, "Dad."

The story is patterned and partially named after the 1948 John Ford Western film Three Godfathers, in which a trio of thieves come to be responsible for a newborn baby.

- From Wikipedia