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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

02/07/2009

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1hr 52min

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Drama

STORY

Asahiyama Zoo in Hokkaido, is the northernmost zoo in Japan. The unpopular zoo welcomes a new zoo keeper, young Yoshida (Yasuhi Nakamura), who has more affection for insects than people after years of being bullied at school when he was young. Yoshida soon realizes that Asahiyama Zoo is facing a financial crisis and the zoo director Takizawa (Toshiyuki Nishida) has been doing everything in his power to save the zoo from closing down. Moved by Takizawa's passion, Yoshida and other zoo keepers came to share the zoo director's belief that one's dreams can come true, and together they tackle this seemingly impossible task of revitalizing Asahiyama. A breakthrough arrives in the form of “Behavioral Exhibition,†a method that is pioneered by Ashiyama's zoo keepers and which eventually makes the zoo renowned throughout the world.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Toshiyuki Nishida
  • Yasuhi Nakamura
  • Ai Maeda
  • Keiko Horiuchi
  • Naomasa Musaka

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • Japan Film Fund
    • KADOKAWA

      Production Countries

    • Japan

    LANGUAGES

    • Japanese

    Cast

    Toshiyuki Nishida

    Kanji Takizawa

    Yasuhi Nakamura

    Tsuyoshi Yoshida

    Ai Maeda

    Makoto Ogawa

    Keiko Horiuchi

    Sanae Ikeuchi

    Naomasa Musaka

    Teruo Mitani

    Sansei Shiomi

    Genta Tobe

    Ittoku Kishibe

    Seinosuke Yanagihara

    Akira Emoto

    Itsuro Usui

    Hiroyuki Nagato

    Keisuke Nirasaki

    Akaji Maro

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