The Challenges Of Overcoming Homelessness In The Movie Tokyo Godfather

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Humans of every gender, sexual orientation, and age have struggles through their life. Some humans prefer to avoid the struggles and the mistakes they have committed through their life’s which involve their love ones, to the extent they prefer leaving their home and becoming homeless. This is the case in the movie Tokyo Godfather where three individuals are homeless one being a middle age man by the name of Gin, another a middle age man who is a drag queen and likes to be refer as Hana, and a runaway teenager by the name of Miyuki. Each of them having a unique situation which are not similar but in some way is destiny since it brings all of them together. They find a baby who they name Kiyoko abandoned in a dumpster while they were looking …show more content…

She always reiterated she could return home if she wanted to when she was never sure about that. She also agreed with Gin that they should turn the baby to the police since she did not want to go to all those troubles but like Gin they did not leave Hana and the baby by themselves. She was the first one to see her family member she had an accident with who was her father she stabbed. Instead of confronting him when she saw him in the train she ran away, she tried to call him in a public phone, he recognize her but she hanged up. She also helped a woman who pretended she was the mother of Kiyoko just because she lost her baby and wanted Kiyoko as hers. She convince her to restart her life with her husband and let Kiyoko live with her real parents because anyone she should know how it feels to lose a baby. They all end up in the hospital with an incident that occurred and the parents of the Kiyoko the baby inform the detective that they want to reward all three of them and become the baby’s godfathers even if they are homeless. When the detective takes Kiyoko parents to them he sees his daughter Miyuki, that is Miyuki second chance to solve her problem with her father but we never know what happens since the movie

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