Zou no Inai Doubutsuen

Add to My List

Add to Favorites

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Zoo Without an Elephant

Japanese: 象のいない動物園

Information

Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 20, 1982

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Group TAC

Source: Other

Genre: Drama

Theme: Historical

Duration: 1 hr. 18 min.

Rating: PG - Children

Statistics

Score: N/A¹ (scored by - users)

¹ indicates a weighted score.

Ranked: #16094²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #17003

Members: 476

Favorites: 1

Resources

AniDB

ANN

N/A

Ranked #16094Popularity #17003Members 476

MovieGroup TAC

Add to My List

Episodes: /1

Edit

Synopsis

After the war, concerned brother Hide promises his critically ill sister Miyoko that he will arrange for her to see a real elephant. But when he goes to the zoo to find one, an old man tells him of the tragic day when the zoo animals were slaughtered.

The story is based on true historical events of the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, where dangerous animals during WW2 were slaughtered in order to prevent them from wreaking havoc in case Allied bombings would let the animals escape. Various methods were used such as starvation, poisoning, death by firing squad, and decapitation. Tokyo was bombed over a year later after the animals' slaughter and Ueno Zoo was never hit.

(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia and Wikipedia)