Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

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


  • Genre: Drama, War
  • Release Date: 1986-07-26
  • Runtime: 1h 46min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: TOHO
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Ryô Kinoshita

Summary

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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  • Tetsuya Takeda

    as Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)

  • Kurara Haruka

    as Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)

  • Midori Hagio

    as Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)

  • Mari Mizutani

    as Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)

  • Nobuyo Oyama

    as Momoyo (Shota's mother)

  • Chōichirō Kawarasaki

    as Hideo Hayakawa

  • Kan Mikami

    as Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)

  • LaSalle Ishii

    as Genji Oshima

  • Noboru Mitani

    as Kiyoshi Saito

  • Shigeru Kōyama

    as Masahiro Murakami

  • Akira Nagoya

    as Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)

  • Yūki Meguro

    as Chief of Staff

  • Hideji Ōtaki

    as Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)

  • Toshiyuki Nagashima

    as Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)
Art Yoshirō Muraki Art Direction
Directing Ryô Kinoshita Director
Crew Shōhei Andō Cinematography
Production Yoshimasa Onishi Producer
Writing Nobuo Yamada Screenplay
Editing Yoshitami Kuroiwa Editor
Production Junichi Shinzaka Producer
Directing Kunio Miyoshi Assistant Director
Sound Kentaro Haneda Original Music Composer
Sound Susumu Chikada Sound
Camera Yoshinori Ishizuki Still Photographer
Lighting Teruo Osawa Lighting Technician

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