TY - ADVS AU - Kobayashi,Shin'ichi AU - Tsuyama,Masao AU - Maki,Tarō AU - Seyama,Takeshi AU - Kon,Satoshi AU - Nobumoto,Keiko AU - Emori,Tōru AU - Umegaki,Yoshiaki AU - Okamoto,Aya AU - Īzuka,Shōzō AU - Katō,Seizō AU - Ishimaru,Hiroya AU - Saikachi,Ryūji AU - Yara,Yūsaku AU - Terase,Kyōko AU - Sugai,Katsutoshi AU - Konishi,Kenichi AU - Ike,Nobutaka AU - Suzuki,Keiichi ED - Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. ED - Maddohausu, Kabushiki Kaisha. ED - Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - Tōkyō goddofāzāzu =: Tokyo godfathers SN - 1404946918 PY - 2004///] CY - Culver City, Calif. PB - Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment KW - Abandoned children KW - Drama KW - Homeless persons KW - Fiction films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Animated films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Presented/produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan)--and Tokyo Godfathers Committee; Originally released as a motion picture in 2003; Special features: animax making of featurette; theatrical trailer; bonus trailers; Director of photography, Katsutoshi Sugai ; animation director, Ken'ichi Konishi ; art director, Nobutaka Ike ; editor, Takeshi Seyama ; music, Keiichi Suzuki ; character designer, Satoshi Kon, Ken'ichi Konishi; Tōru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto, Shōzō Īzuka, Seizō Katō, Hiroya Ishimaru, Ryūji Saikachi, Yūsaku Yara, Kyōko Terase; MPAA rating: PG-13; for thematic elements, violent images, language and some sexual material ; Canadian home video rating: 14A N2 - The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents ER -