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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

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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.

Featured Crew

Ryô Kinoshita
Director
Kunio Miyoshi
Assistant Director
Yoshimasa Onishi
Producer
Nobuo Yamada
Screenplay
Yoshirō Muraki
Art Direction
Shōhei Andō
Cinematography
Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor
Junichi Shinzaka
Producer

Cast

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