Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
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.
Top Billed Cast
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)
Featured Crew
Ryô Kinoshita
Director
Kunio Miyoshi
Assistant Director
Yoshirō Muraki
Art Direction
Shōhei Andō
Cinematography
Nobuo Yamada
Screenplay
Yoshimasa Onishi
Producer
Junichi Shinzaka
Producer
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor
Kentaro Haneda
Original Music Composer
Susumu Chikada
Sound
Yoshinori Ishizuki
Still Photographer
Teruo Osawa
Lighting Technician
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