Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth

July. 26,1986      
Rating:
5.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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)
Yoko Mizutani as  Mariko Kurita (Director Kurita's daughter)
Nobuyo Oyama as  Momoyo (Shota's mother)
Chōichirō Kawarasaki as  Hideo Hayakawa
Kan Mikami as  Kikuo Yokoyama (Akimoto's sidecar driver/Army Sergeant)
LaSalle Ishii as  Genji Oshima
Noboru Mitani as  Kiyoshi Saito
Shigeru Kōyama as  Masahiro Murakami