Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

0 | 1986-07-26 | Drama War

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.

Featured Crew

Ryô Kinoshita Director
Kunio Miyoshi Assistant Director
Yoshimasa Onishi Producer
Nobuo Yamada Screenplay
Yoshirō Muraki Art Direction
Shōhei Andō Cinematography
Yoshitami Kuroiwa Editor
Junichi Shinzaka Producer
Kentaro Haneda Original Music Composer
Susumu Chikada Sound

Cast

Tetsuya Takeda
Tetsuya Takeda
Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
Kurara Haruka
Kurara Haruka
Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)
Midori Hagio
Midori Hagio
Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)
Mari Mizutani
Mari Mizutani
Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
Nobuyo Oyama
Nobuyo Oyama
Momoyo (Shota's mother)
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Hideo Hayakawa
Kan Mikami
Kan Mikami
Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)
LaSalle Ishii
LaSalle Ishii
Genji Oshima
Noboru Mitani
Noboru Mitani
Kiyoshi Saito
Shigeru Kōyama
Shigeru Kōyama
Masahiro Murakami

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