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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

IMDB:

8.8
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

Released

2/7/2009

Duration

1h 52m

Genre

Drama

Country

Japan

Cast

Toshiyuki Nishida, Yasuhi Nakamura, Ai Maeda

Overview

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

Toshiyuki Nishida

Kanji Takizawa

Toshiyuki Nishida

Yasuhi Nakamura

Tsuyoshi Yoshida

Yasuhi Nakamura

Ai Maeda

Makoto Ogawa

Ai Maeda

Keiko Horiuchi

Sanae Ikeuchi

Keiko Horiuchi

Naomasa Musaka

Teruo Mitani

Naomasa Musaka

Sansei Shiomi

Genta Tobe

Sansei Shiomi

Ittoku Kishibe

Seinosuke Yanagihara

Ittoku Kishibe

Akira Emoto

Itsuro Usui

Akira Emoto

Hiroyuki Nagato

Keisuke Nirasaki

Hiroyuki Nagato

Akaji Maro

Unknown Role

Akaji Maro

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