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

Directed by Ryō Kinoshita1h 46mDrama,War

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.

Year

1986

Country

JP

Language

Japanese

Release date

26 July 1986

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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

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Kan Mikami

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

LaSalle Ishii

Noboru Mitani

Shigeru Kōyama

Shigeru Kōyama

Masahiro Murakami

Akira Nagoya

Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)

Yūki Meguro

Hideji Ōtaki

Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)

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