Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

movie

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.

Cast & crew

Chōichirō Kawarasaki · Kan Mikami · Kurara Haruka · LaSalle Ishii · Mari Mizutani · Midori Hagio · Noboru Mitani · Nobuyo Oyama · Shigeru Kōyama · Tetsuya Takeda · Ryō Kinoshita · Nobuo Yamada

Studios & networks

Bandai · Shogakukan · TOHO