Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
子象物語 地上に降りた天使 (original title)
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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: Tetsuya Takeda, Kurara Haruka, Midori Hagio, Mari Mizutani, Nobuyo Oyama, Chōichirō Kawarasaki, Kan Mikami, LaSalle Ishii, Noboru Mitani, Shigeru Kōyama, Akira Nagoya, Yūki Meguro, Hideji Ōtaki, Toshiyuki Nagashima
Writer: Nobuo Yamada (Screenplay)
Cinematographer: Shōhei Andō
Production Designer: Yoshirō Muraki
Editor: Yoshitami Kuroiwa
Sound Designer: Susumu Chikada
Composer: Kentaro Haneda
Direction team: Kunio Miyoshi (Assistant Director)
Producers: Yoshimasa Onishi, Junichi Shinzaka
Production: TOHO, Shogakukan, Bandai
