Poster of Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

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.

Release Date: 1986-07-26

Original Language: ja

Genres: Drama War

Rating:

Popularity:

0.91

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Cast Members

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)

Kan Mikami

Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)

LaSalle Ishii

Genji Oshima

Noboru Mitani

Kiyoshi Saito

Shigeru Kōyama

Masahiro Murakami

Akira Nagoya

Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)

Yūki Meguro

Chief of Staff

Hideji Ōtaki

Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)