Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
1991, English. Directed by George Levinson.
True story (based on the book by Eleanor Coerr) about a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki, who was two years old when the atom bomb fell on her city of Hiroshima. Like so many other survivors of that horrific day, she subsequently developed leukemia. To keep herself occupied during her illness, she begins the monumental task of folding a thousand origami cranes--in the hopes that it will save her life.
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- 0h 30m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- English
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- Released
- 29 March 1991
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- George Levinson, Victoria Trostle
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 March 1991. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes?
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (1991) was directed by George Levinson and stars Liv Ullmann.