Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

Ryô Kinoshita
1986-07-26


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106 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Tetsuya Takeda Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper) Unowned
Kurara Haruka Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist) Unowned
Midori Hagio Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife) Unowned
Mari Mizutani Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter) Unowned
Nobuyo Oyama Momoyo (Shota's mother) Unowned
Chōichirō Kawarasaki Hideo Hayakawa Unowned
Kan Mikami Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant) Unowned
LaSalle Ishii Genji Oshima Unowned
Noboru Mitani Kiyoshi Saito Unowned
Shigeru Kōyama Masahiro Murakami Unowned
Akira Nagoya Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo) Unowned
Yūki Meguro Chief of Staff Unowned
Hideji Ōtaki Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo) Unowned
Toshiyuki Nagashima Keiji Akimoto (Army Major) Unowned