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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

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Calorie Rating: 149
Released: 1986-07-26
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Studios: TOHO, Shogakukan, Bandai,


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.

Director / Directors

Kunio Miyoshi
Assistant Director


Cast

Tetsuya Takeda
Character: Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
Kurara Haruka
Character: Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)
Midori Hagio
Character: Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)

Mari Mizutani
Character: Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
Nobuyo Oyama
Character: Momoyo (Shota's mother)
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
Character: Hideo Hayakawa

Kan Mikami
Character: Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)
LaSalle Ishii
Character: Genji Oshima
Noboru Mitani
Character: Kiyoshi Saito

Shigeru Kōyama
Character: Masahiro Murakami
Akira Nagoya
Character: Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)
Yûki Meguro
Character: Chief of Staff

Hideji Ōtaki
Character: Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)
Toshiyuki Nagashima
Character: Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)


Production and Crew

Nobuo Yamada
Screenplay
Yoshirō Muraki
Art Direction

Shôhei Andô
Cinematography

Teruo Osawa
Lighting Technician
Kentaro Haneda
Original Music Composer

Yoshinori Ishizuki
Still Photographer