Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky (2009)

Directed by Masahiko Tsugawa

Drama · 1h 52m

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.

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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

Crew

Director
Masahiko Tsugawa
Original Music Composer
Ryudo Uzaki
Producer
Tadahisa Sakamoto, Hisao Nabeshima

Details

Original title
旭山動物園物語 ペンギンが空をとぶ
Release date
2009-02-07
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Japan Film Fund, KADOKAWA, NTT Docomo, Nippon Herald Films