Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
1986In 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.
Acted in
Tetsuya Takeda
as Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
Kurara Haruka
as Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)
Midori Hagio
as Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)
Mari Mizutani
as Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
Nobuyo Oyama
as Momoyo (Shota's mother)
Chōichirō Kawarasaki
as Hideo Hayakawa
Kan Mikami
as Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)
LaSalle Ishii
as Genji Oshima
Noboru Mitani
as Kiyoshi Saito
Shigeru Kōyama
as Masahiro Murakami
Akira Nagoya
as Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)
Yūki Meguro
as Chief of Staff
Hideji Ōtaki
as Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)
Toshiyuki Nagashima
as Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)