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Baby Elephant Story: The angel who descended to earth (1986) [N/A]

Release Date:
July 26, 1986

Original Title:
子象物語 地上に降りた天使

Alternate Titles:
Kozou Monogatari - Chijou ni Orita Tenshi

Genres:
Drama | War

Production Companies:
Bandai
Shogakukan
TOHO

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 106

Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Yoshirō Muraki

Assistant Director:
Kunio Miyoshi

Cinematography:
Shōhei Andō

Director:
Ryô Kinoshita

Editor:
Yoshitami Kuroiwa

Lighting Technician:
Teruo Osawa

Original Music Composer:
Kentaro Haneda

Producer:
Yoshimasa Onishi
Junichi Shinzaka

Screenplay:
Nobuo Yamada

Sound:
Susumu Chikada

Still Photographer:
Yoshinori Ishizuki

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