Aya Okamoto

Yoshiaki Umegaki

Tohru Emori

Satomi Korogi

Mamiko Noto

Ryūji Saikachi

Kyôko Terase

Rikiya Koyama

Hiroya Ishimaru

Koichi Yamadera

Akio Otsuka

Yusaku Yara

Seizô Katô

Shozo Iizuka

Chiyako Shibahara

Mitsuru Ogata

Hidenari Ugaki

Muneyuki Kanbe

Shinichi Kobayashi

Masao Takiyama

Satoshi Kon

Taro Maki

Keiichi Suzuki

Hisashi Mori

Hiroko Kazui

Katsutoshi Sugai

Shougo Furuya

Takeshi Honda

Shinji Otsuka

Kazutaka Ozaki

Kumiko Kawana

Michiyo Suzuki

Masashi Ando

Akiko Asaki

Kenichi Konishi

Tetsuya Kumagai

Nobutaka Ike

Kikuyo Yano

Mie Kasai

Kaoru Inoda

Mitsuo Yoshino

Shinichi Uehara

Hisashi Ikeda

Toshiyuki Inoue

Naruyo Kiriyama

Norio Matsumoto

Shinji Hashimoto

Megumi Kagawa

Takatoshi Abe

Masako Okada

Shigeru Fujita

Kashiko Kimura

Kazunobu Hoshi

Takaaki Yamashita

Shizuo Kurahashi

Takashi Omori

Youichi Watanabe

Hiroyuki Nakamura

Kaichi Honma

Junko Ina

Kumiko Taniguchi

Miwa Sasaki

Masafumi Mima

Satoshi Hashimoto

Keiko Nobumoto

Chiemi Irisa

Toyohiko Sakakibara

Hiroshi Murakami

Hitoshi Yamaguchi

Hiroshi Oizumi

Yukihiro Masumoto

Sachi Suzuki

Hideki Hamasu

Takeshi Seyama

Animation

Drama

Comedy

東京ゴッドファーザーズ

Madhouse

Sony Pictures

dentsu

GENCO

Japan

CinemaSerf

An unlikely triumvirate of homeless folks discover an abandoned baby whilst scavenging through the rubbish of their downtown Tokyo district. What to do? Well this trio - a drag queen who has seen better days, one who has a bit of a penchant for the gin and the young runaway girl "Miyuki" set out to try and repatriate this Christmas baby - come what may! They don't have much to go on, but determine to painstakingly follow what little clues they have in the hope that they can identify the mother of this pitiful bundle. Along the way, we find ourselves in a semi-comical environment as the three make progress - almost despite themselves. Confused, yes? Muddled? Yes, that too - but the sum of the three individuals proves to be worth far more than the value of each part. They function as a team because they shouldn't - and that is where much of the humour and the potency of the drama comes from. The animation is stylish and the hues and shades are particularly effective at illustrating their environment and at complimenting the humorous elements of their detective work. For some, 2022 attitudes may show up some of the character cracks that would have been groundbreaking at the start of this new millennium, but given it was made when it was - it tackles quite a few issues with a candour - and vivacity - that all works well to create an entertaining, charming and at times just a little thought-provoking animation.