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Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky(2009)
Status: Released
Date: 2009-02-07
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3 Votes
Time: 1h 52m
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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.
Languages: Japanese.
Countries:
Japan
ProductionCompanies: 
Japan Film Fund
Movie: Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Top 10 Billed Cast
西田敏行
Kanji Takizawa
中村靖日
Tsuyoshi Yoshida
前田愛
Makoto Ogawa
堀内敬子
Sanae Ikeuchi
六平直政
Teruo Mitani
塩見三省
Genta Tobe
岸部一徳
Seinosuke Yanagihara
柄本明
Itsuro Usui
長門裕之
Keisuke Nirasaki
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.
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2009-02-07
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