Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

106 mins
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.

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)

Chōichirō Kawarasaki

Hideo Hayakawa

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)

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

Kentaro Haneda

Original Music Composer

Susumu Chikada

Sound

Yoshinori Ishizuki

Still Photographer

Teruo Osawa

Lighting Technician

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