Movie: Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

Top 10 Billed Cast

Toshiyuki Nishida
西田敏行

Kanji Takizawa

Yasuhi Nakamura
中村靖日

Tsuyoshi Yoshida

Ai Maeda
前田愛

Makoto Ogawa

Keiko Horiuchi
堀内敬子

Sanae Ikeuchi

Naomasa Musaka
六平直政

Teruo Mitani

Sansei Shiomi
塩見三省

Genta Tobe

Ittoku Kishibe
岸部一徳

Seinosuke Yanagihara

Akira Emoto
柄本明

Itsuro Usui

Hiroyuki Nagato
長門裕之

Keisuke Nirasaki

Akaji Maro
麿赤兒

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    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.

  • Release Date

    2009-02-07

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    8

  • Rating:

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    日本語
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