"We want that tramp to be the godfather of this kid."
A film about love and return, a Christmas miracle story.
What is the godfather like?
It is the graceful Brando who puts forward a "condition that he cannot refuse"; it is the quality of integrity, fraternity and kindness; it is the responsibility of guiding and educating a child in the process of growing up.
Just as there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's hearts, a thousand images of godfathers with different styles will also emerge in a thousand people's hearts. In Jin Min's film world, ordinary worldly and even guilty homeless become the godfather of innocent children. A heartwarming story unfolds quietly in the neon-flickering, intoxicated Tokyo.
Three homeless homeless people who found their baby girl abandoned by a rubbish dump at Christmas have decided to send the child to the police. But "Miss" GAY Ah Hua, who has always dreamed of being a mother, insisted on finding the child's biological mother. As a person who was abandoned by her own mother since she was a child, Ah Hua has lived a life of resentment towards her biological mother. He has transformed his regrets into As a kind of hope pinned on the baby, I hope that through this incident, my heart can be unraveled. It is also because of his persistence that the three began their respective journeys of return.
In the process of tracing the clues of the baby's mother, Mr. Jin, who once gambled and drank and abandoned his wife and children, met his daughter again. And this man who uses cowardice and escape as his self-label, after being robbed of the 30,000 yen he saved for his daughter by a street hooligan, endured the pain and bravely chased after the hooligan just to get back the share he had prepared for redemption 's mind. He was originally the most dashing and fearless person among the three, ignoring his responsibilities and letting his freedom go, but he rebuilt himself in the whole process, and every turning point and conflict made him regain the missing part of his character, until finally his own kindness The return of nature makes up for past mistakes and regrets.
Miyuki, a girl who stabbed her father and ran away from home, is rebellious on the outside, but soft on the inside. She has never been able to forgive herself for hurting her father. Although she is homesick and misses her father, the girl's stubbornness has made her take back her foot on the road to home again and again. The little girl grows at a fast speed while wandering. . The process of helping the baby come home is also a process of slowly returning home in her mind. After finally helping the baby return to her biological parents, she met her father and let go of her hard work.
Jin Min gave everyone a warm consolation in the cold urban life with unique characters and a plot full of coincidences. Pure friendship between friends, sincere affection between father and daughter, and true perseverance and bravery. There is no need to substitute the framework of the godfather from the secular into this story. While taking care of the children, these adults are also taking care of the missing self inside. The two-way growth brings a two-way return.
As Ah Hua sighed, "the debts of life are finally cleared, and the bell tolls on New Year's Eve", love and kindness have given people the opportunity to start over.
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