Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)
Synopsis
In the winter of 1945, Sakura the elephant gave birth to a baby elephant at Tokyo Fujimi Zoo under the watchful eye of the zookeeper Shota Tanabe. Around the same time, Shota's wife, Setsuko, also gave birth to a son. Hanako, the baby elephant, grows up while deepening her bonds with elementary school students who love zoos. However, as Japan enters the Pacific War, the military orders the animals in the zoos of five major cities to be killed.
Release Date: 1986-07-26
Runtime: 106 minutes
Director: Ryō Kinoshita
Top Cast
- Tetsuya Takeda as Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
- Kurara Haruka as Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)
- Midori Hagio as Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)
- Mari Mizutani as Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
- Nobuyo Oyama as Momoyo (Shota's mother)
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki as Hideo Hayakawa
- Kan Mikami as Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)
- LaSalle Ishii as Genji Oshima
- Noboru Mitani as Kiyoshi Saito
- Shigeru Kōyama as Masahiro Murakami
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