Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986)
1986 · 1h 46m · Drama, War
Genres: 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.
Director: Ryō Kinoshita
Writers: Nobuo Yamada
Music by: Kentaro Haneda
Cinematography: Shōhei Andō
Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Cast
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 HayakawaKan Mikami as Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)LaSalle Ishii as Genji OshimaNoboru Mitani as Kiyoshi SaitoShigeru Kōyama as Masahiro MurakamiAkira Nagoya as Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)Yūki Meguro as Chief of StaffMore like this
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