Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

8.8

1 hr 52 min

2009-02-07

8

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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Characters

Toshiyuki Nishida

Toshiyuki Nishida

Kanji Takizawa

Yasuhi Nakamura

Yasuhi Nakamura

Tsuyoshi Yoshida

Ai Maeda

Ai Maeda

Makoto Ogawa

Keiko Horiuchi

Keiko Horiuchi

Sanae Ikeuchi

Naomasa Musaka

Naomasa Musaka

Teruo Mitani

Sansei Shiomi

Sansei Shiomi

Genta Tobe

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