Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
movie
Released July 26, 1986
Overview
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
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
Crew
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Ryô Kinoshita
as
Director
Kunio Miyoshi
as
Assistant Director
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Yoshimasa Onishi
as
Producer
Nobuo Yamada
as
Screenplay
Yoshirō Muraki
as
Art Direction
Shōhei Andō
as
Cinematography
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
as
Editor
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Junichi Shinzaka
as
Producer
Kentaro Haneda
as
Original Music Composer
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Susumu Chikada
as
Sound
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Yoshinori Ishizuki
as
Still Photographer
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Teruo Osawa
as
Lighting Technician