Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

1h 46min

Drama

War

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.

Production Companies

TOHO

Shogakukan

Bandai

Cast

Tetsuya Takeda

Tetsuya Takeda

Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
Kurara Haruka

Kurara Haruka

Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)
Midori Hagio

Midori Hagio

Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)
Mari Mizutani

Mari Mizutani

Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
Nobuyo Oyama

Nobuyo Oyama

Momoyo (Shota's mother)
Kan Mikami

Kan Mikami

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

LaSalle Ishii

Genji Oshima
Noboru Mitani

Noboru Mitani

Kiyoshi Saito
Shigeru Kōyama

Shigeru Kōyama

Masahiro Murakami
Akira Nagoya

Akira Nagoya

Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)
Yūki Meguro

Yūki Meguro

Chief of Staff
Hideji Ōtaki

Hideji Ōtaki

Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)
Toshiyuki Nagashima

Toshiyuki Nagashima

Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)

Release date

26th Jul 1986

Status

Released

Spoken languages

日本語