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A Zoo Without an Elephant (1982)

Name: A Zoo Without an Elephant
Director: Tsuneo Maeda
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Released: 1982-03-20
Duration: 79 min
Cast: Masahiro Anzai, Tadao Futami, Tetsuya Kaji, Hiroko Maruyama, Yoneko Matsukane

79 min · Japan · Dir. Tsuneo Maeda

Animation Comedy 1982 movies

In 1949, after the war, Hidé and his sister Myoko are poor and live in a makeshift hut under the bridge and do their best to survive. When Myoko recovers from an illness, he offers to take her to the Zoo to show her the impressive elephant that marked him during a visit when he was younger. He will be angry to find that there is no more elephant, replaced by a cardboard reproduction. Sankichi, a Zoo employee will tell him the sad truth about what happened.