On Christmas Eve, after a nativity service for the homeless of Tokyo, Hana takes the other two to help

her find Miyuki's present, which she hid in a dumpster. Gin and Miyuki get into a fight, but then they
stop when they hear a baby crying, and discover a new-born among the trash. Hana, a drag-queen
believes the baby is a gift from God, as she wanted to be a mother, but Gin informs that they must
return the baby to her parents. Hana agrees and they discover clues from a baby-bag filled with baby
food, such as a photograph of a couple and a locker key. Hana decides to name the baby girl Kiyoko,
meaning "pure child", as Christmas Eve is the purest of all nights.

They take Kiyoko to their tent and Hana sends Miyuki to run an errand. Gin then tells Hana that he once
had a daughter, but she fell ill, and Gin had no money for medicine. A con man helped him in a scheme
to get the money by throwing a bicycle race, but the scandal was discovered, and Gin's daughter and
wife died later, leaving Gin to succumb to alcoholism.

The next day, the group heads to the train station, where they use the locker key's number to find the
locker. In it, they find a set of house keys and a club's phone number, but they can't get a hold of the
owner. They board a light train, but Miyuki escapes after she spots her father in another train, spilling
the baby food in the process. Gin and Hana, with Kiyoko in her arms, go after Miyuki, and they begin to
wander in the streets, as it begins to snow. Kiyoko becomes hungry and begins to cry, so the group
begins to look for something to eat. They go into a graveyard, where they find an offering of baby
supplies, convincing Hana that Kiyoko is favored by God. Outside the graveyard, they find a high-ranking
yakuza man (Japanese mafia), trapped under his car. They free him and he asks what he can do to thank
them. They ask about the address of the club on the card and where to find the owner. He takes them to
the club, where his daughter (also named Kiyoko) is getting married to the owner. The group help
themselves to food and drinks, while the yakuza searches for his son-in-law. Kiyoko the baby begins to
cry and Miyuki takes her to change her diaper. Gin is then shocked to see the groom, telling Hana that
he is the con man who set up the bicycle race scandal.

The groom informs the two about Sachiko, the woman in the picture, who used to work at the club. He
offers them Sachiko's address, but the party is interrupted by a maid, who is revealed to be a Hispanic
hit-man in disguise. He attends to shoot the yakuza, but the groom takes the shots. The hit-man runs off,
taking Miyuki and Kiyoko the baby as hostages and they flee into a taxi. The hit-man takes them to his
home, where they meet his wife, who is much kinder and warm-hearted and also has a baby. She
breast-feeds Kiyoko along with her child, while she and Miyuki get acquainted, despite a language-
barrier. Miyuki shows the mother some pictures of her family including her policeman father, religious
mother, and her cat, Angel. Miyuki begins to cry and tells the wife that she ran away from home after
stabbing her father, believing that he got rid of Angel.

Meanwhile, Hana calls the taxi service about the abduction, and they sent the cab driver who took the
hit-man. Gin, however, wants to call the police, but Hana wants to find the kidnapped girls. Gin walks
off, leaving Hana to find the girls. Awhile later, he finds an elderly homeless man, dying and Gin takes
him to his tent, where he dies peacefully. Gin then notices a picture of two buildings and compares it to
the photo of the couple, the backgrounds matching. Then, some teenagers show up and attack Gin and
the deceased homeless man, and trash the place as a form of "clean-up". Gin is badly wounded and
wanders through the streets, looking for Hana.

The cab driver brings Hana to the hit-man's place and Hana runs down the alley, but stops and coughs
up blood. She then finds the girls safe and sound. They thank the Hispanic woman and leave to find a
place to spend the night. Then, they hear a group of paramedics talking about the deceased homeless
man, and they believe it's Gin. Hana cuddles the body, only to find out that it is the elderly man. Gin is
then rescued by an "angel", a woman who is really dressed up as one.

Hana takes the two girls to a club where she used to work at and introduces her "mother" (another drag
queen who raised her). They also find Gin there, beaten up, but well-taken care of. Hana and her
"mother" talk about the death of Hana's boyfriend, and how Hana left the club after attacking an
especially rude customer. She then informs her mother about the baby, Kiyoko and her "mother"
encourages her to keep looking for the parents. While doing laundry, Hana sees the photo of the two
buildings and immediately recognizes it.

The group takes a train to another part of Tokyo, where the two buildings are. A snow storm forces
them to take shelter at an empty construction site. Awhile later, Miyuki goes to run an errand, only to
be stopped when she sees a demolished house with the two buildings in the background. Gin checks the
house keys, which they work at a lone standing door. The next morning, the group asks the neighbors of
what they know of Sachiko, while Miyuki looks around the wreckage for anything useful, and she finds a
newspaper, with her in the missing persons section. Her father wants her to come home and he
mentions that Angel came back. The neighbors explain that Sachiko's marriage was rocky and she and
her husband would fight all the time. They eventually went into debt because of the husband's gambling
and alcoholism and they were forced to leave the house.

That evening, Gin and Hana, with Kiyoko stop to rest at a store, but they get into an argument with a
drunken man. Miyuki goes to call her father, but she is too scared to talk to him. She returns to find the
group fighting with the drunken man outside. Suddenly, a run-away ambulance crashes into the store
and Hana praises to God for saving them, but she then collapses and coughs up blood.

Hana is taken to the hospital and Gin talks to the physician, who advises that Hana should get some rest.
Gin explains that they are homeless, but the physician says he deals with all kinds of people, even the
homeless. In the lobby, Miyuki meets Kiyoko the nurse and she is surprised to see Gin, her father. The
two join in conversation; the truth is revealed that Gin once owned a bicycle shop, but he left his family
when his gambling and alcoholism got worse and the con-man was really someone Gin owed money to.
Hana becomes angry, realizing that everything that Gin said to her before was a lie and she insults Gin in
front of his daughter, then she and Miyuki, with the baby leave Gin.

Miyuki asks Hana if insulting Gin in front of his daughter was the right thing, although Hana thinks she
will forgive him. She then tells the story of "The Weeping Red Devil"; the red devil was feared by the
villagers, but he wanted to be friends with them. His friend, the blue devil thought up a plan, he would
wreck havoc on the village and the red devil would save them. The plan worked, but the blue devil had
to go away, in order to prevent the villagers from believing it was a trick. Miyuki is shocked to hear that
Hana plans to leave the group once they find Sachiko. Back at the hospital, Gin sees a report about a
kidnapped baby, who looks exactly like Kiyoko the baby.

Hana and Miyuki then rescue a woman from committing suicide and realize it's Sachiko. She informs
them that her husband took Kiyoko while she was out and fell into depression. Hana gives Kiyoko back
to Sachiko, but the baby cries continuously. Elsewhere, Gin finds an apartment and goes into one
complex, that is filled with trash and unopened mail. He finds Sachiko's husband (Yasuo) among the
clutter and angrily bellows at him for being a horrible father, but the husband informs that the baby is
not his, nor is Sachiko's. He replies that Sachiko actually stole the baby and he hid her in hopes that the
police would find her, although Gin calls him a terrible person, for he didn't do the right thing. Gin takes
a bicycle and goes to look for Hana and Miyuki.

At the temple, everyone, including Hana and Miyuki pay their respects for the new year. Gin arrives to
inform them what he learned from the husband and they head off to find Sachiko. They go on a wild
goose chase, when Sachiko steals a delivery truck and Gin steals a policeman's bicycle and goes after the
truck. Hana stops a taxi and the driver recognizes her and they go after them. Gin grabs onto the
passenger door and Sachiko crashes the truck into a building. She then takes Kiyoko and heads to the
rooftop, with Miyuki in pursuit. Sachiko threatens to commit suicide with Kiyoko, stopping Miyuki in her
tracks. Sachiko's husband sees his wife on the news and realizes what he has done to her and to himself.
Miyuki asks why Sachiko stole Kiyoko. Sachiko explains her baby was stillborn and in her delusion took
Kiyoko as a replacement. Miyuki says that life is born once and people are responsible for their futures.
She encourages Sachiko to give Kiyoko back, but she is about to jump off, when her husband calls out to
her, informing her that they can start over. Miyuki catches Sachiko as she steps off, informing her that
Kiyoko wants to go back to her parents, and Sachiko surrenders. Miyuki begins to slip, but Gin catches
them, but Sachiko accidentally drops Kiyoko. In a daring attempt, Hana runs down the side and catches
Kiyoko, but she slips and catches a banner. The banner breaks away, sending both of them towards
earth, but a strong wind fills the banner and floats Hana with Kiyoko in her arms down to the ground
safe and sound.

Awhile later, Kiyoko is reunited with her real parents and the group is treated at the hospital. The
parents want to thank them and want them to be Kiyoko's godparents, so the police inspector in charge
of finding Kiyoko lets them in and is extremely surprised to see Miyuki. She stares back at him and
whispers "Dad." End

Tokyo Godfathers tells the story of three homeless people; Gin, an alcoholic and middle-aged hobo;
Hana, a transgender woman and former drag queen; Miyuki, a runaway teenage girl, and the baby girl
they find one Christmas Eve. The three take it upon themselves to return the baby to her parents, all
while slowly coming to confront past and present regrets.

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the
trash and set out to find its parents.

Christmas in Tokyo, Japan. Three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum.
While foraging through some trash, they find an abandoned newborn. Hana, the transvestite with
delusions of being a mother, convinces the others to keep it overnight. The next day, using a key found
with the baby, they start tracking down the parents, with many adventures along the way.

Christmas. Snow is turning Tokyo into a white city. Somewhere in Shinjuku, there are three energetic
homeless people, Gin (an alcoholic ex-bicycle racer), Hana (an ex-drag queen), and Miyuki (an
adolescent runaway). While rummaging through a pile of trash for their Christmas gifts, they hear a
muffled crying sound coming from the pile; they dig into the pile to find an angelic baby. Gin insists they
go to the police and return the abandoned baby, but Hana, who has always dreamt of being a mother,
has made her mind up to keep the baby and name it ‘Kiyoko.' Armed with a business card and a few
photographs, the eccentric family heads into an odyssey to discover the baby's home. In a harrowing
comedic and uplifting journey they discover their own history and happiness.