Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)

0.0 July 26, 1986 1h 46m Released
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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.

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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

  • Akira Nagoya

    Akira Nagoya

    Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)

  • Yūki Meguro

    Yūki Meguro

    Chief of Staff

  • Hideji Ōtaki

    Hideji Ōtaki

    Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)

  • Toshiyuki Nagashima

    Toshiyuki Nagashima

    Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)

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