Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth
1986, drama, war
106 minutes
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...
Cast
Shota Tanabe (Tokyo Fujimi Zoo Keeper)
Sachiko Kogure (Akimoto's fiancée/Pianist)
Setsuko Tanabe (Shota's wife)
Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
Momoyo (Shota's mother)
Hideo Hayakawa
Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)
Genji Oshima
Kiyoshi Saito
Masahiro Murakami
Shoichi Takahashi (Director of Tokyo Fujimi Zoo)
Chief of Staff
Hiroshi Kurita (Director of Nagano Zoo)
Keiji Akimoto (Army Major)
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