Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
1986, Japanese. Directed by Ryō Kinoshita.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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Cast & crew
- Ryō KinoshitaDirector
- Tetsuya TakedaShota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
- Kurara HarukaSachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)
- Midori HagioSetsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)
- Mari MizutaniMariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
- Nobuyo OyamaMomoyo (Shota's mother)
- Chōichirō KawarasakiHideo Hayakawa
- Kan MikamiKikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)
- LaSalle IshiiGenji Oshima
- Noboru MitaniKiyoshi Saito
- Shigeru KōyamaMasahiro Murakami
- Akira NagoyaShoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)
- Yūki MeguroChief of Staff
Details
- Released
- 26 July 1986
- Original title
- 子象物語 地上に降りた天使
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Nobuo Yamada
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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986) was directed by Ryō Kinoshita and stars Tetsuya Takeda, Kurara Haruka, Midori Hagio.