Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky

February. 07,2009      
Rating:
6.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Toshiyuki Nishida as  Kanji Takizawa
Yasuhi Nakamura as  Tsuyoshi Yoshida
Ai Maeda as  Makoto Ogawa
Keiko Horiuchi as  Sanae Ikeuchi
Naomasa Musaka as  Teruo Mitani
Sansei Shiomi as  Genta Tobe
Ittoku Kishibe as  Seinosuke Yanagihara
Akira Emoto as  Itsuro Usui
Hiroyuki Nagato as  Keisuke Nirasaki
Akaji Maro as  

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Reviews

CommentsXp
2009/02/07

Best movie ever!

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Beanbioca
2009/02/08

As Good As It Gets

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CrawlerChunky
2009/02/09

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

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Kimball
2009/02/10

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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