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

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

Studios & networks

Bandai · Shogakukan · TOHO