Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

Name: Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1986-07-26
Duration: 1 h 46 min
Cast: Tetsuya Takeda, Kurara Haruka, Midori Hagio, Mari Mizutani, Nobuyo Oyama

子象物語地上に降りた天使 (1986)

1:46 (106 min)

Drama, War

Japan

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Production

TOHO, Shogakukan, Bandai

Release date

26 July 1986

Director

Ryō Kinoshita

Scenario

Nobuo Yamada

Composer

Kentaro Haneda

Producer

Yoshimasa Onishi

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Actors

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

All actors and roles (10)

Short description

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.