Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky (2009)
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.
Director: Masahiko Tsugawa
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Toshiyuki Nishida as Kanji Takizawa |
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Yasuhi Nakamura as Tsuyoshi Yoshida |
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Ai Maeda as Makoto Ogawa |
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Keiko Horiuchi as Sanae Ikeuchi |
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Naomasa Musaka as Teruo Mitani |
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Sansei Shiomi as Genta Tobe |
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Ittoku Kishibe as Seinosuke Yanagihara |
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Akira Emoto as Itsuro Usui |
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Hiroyuki Nagato as Keisuke Nirasaki |
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Akaji Maro as |
| Directing | Masahiko Tsugawa | Director |
| Writing | Yasuhiro Koshimizu | Scenario Writer |
| Production | Tadahisa Sakamoto | Producer |
| Lighting | Hideaki Yamakawa | Gaffer |
| Production | Tsutomu Tsuchikawa | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Shin'ichi Itô | Sound Effects |
| Sound | Shigeru Abe | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Ryudo Uzaki | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Shinji Tanimura | Theme Song Performance |
| Production | Tsuguhiko Kadokawa | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Yukio Nagasaki | Music Producer |
| Crew | Shigemi Iwai | Script |
| Production | Hisao Nabeshima | Producer |
