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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)

Directed by Ryô Kinoshita

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.

Length 106 minutes

Actors

Tetsuya Takeda | Kurara Haruka | Midori Hagio | Mari Mizutani | Nobuyo Oyama | Choichiro Kawarazaki | Kan Mikami | LaSalle Ishii | Noboru Mitani | Shigeru Kôyama | Akira Nagoya | Yûki Meguro | Hideji Ôtaki | Toshiyuki Nagashima