Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)
子象物語 地上に降りた天使
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.
- Date of release
- 1986-07-26
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Ryō Kinoshita
Casting
- Tetsuya Takeda — Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
- Kurara Haruka — Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)
- Midori Hagio — Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)
- Mari Mizutani — Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
- Nobuyo Oyama — Momoyo (Shota's mother)
- Chōichirō Kawarasaki — Hideo Hayakawa
- Kan Mikami — Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)
- LaSalle Ishii — Genji Oshima
- Noboru Mitani — Kiyoshi Saito
- Shigeru Kōyama — Masahiro Murakami
- Akira Nagoya — Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)
- Yūki Meguro — Chief of Staff
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