Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)
1h 46m
Running Time
July 26, 1986Release Date

Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)
1h 46m
Running Time
July 26, 1986Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

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

Yoshirō Muraki
Art Direction

Shōhei Andō
Cinematography

Nobuo Yamada
Screenplay

Yoshimasa Onishi
Producer

Junichi Shinzaka
Producer

Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Editor

Kentaro Haneda
Original Music Composer

Susumu Chikada
Sound

Yoshinori Ishizuki
Still Photographer

Teruo Osawa
Lighting Technician
Media.



Details.
Release DateJuly 26, 1986
Original Name子象物語 地上に降りた天使
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 46m
Genres
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