Elephant Story
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How it feels
This Japanese nature documentary follows African elephants in the Kenyan savanna. After their mother dies, an older elephant protects his younger brother from poachers.
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What happens
Elephant Story (Japanese: 象物語, Hepburn: Zou monogatari) is a 1980 Japanese nature documentary co-directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara, his brother Koretsugu Kurahara and Hino Narimichi, and written by Junichi Mimura. A co-production between Nippon Television and Toho-Towa, it was theatrically released in Japan on March 20, 1980. The film depicts the lives of a family of African elephants, including an older elephant protecting his younger brother from poachers in the Kenyan savanna, after their mother dies of illness. Elephant Story was one of three animal films that Koreyoshi Kurahara took part in directing. The others were 1978's The Glacier Fox (キタキツネ物語, Kita-kitsune monogatari) and the 1983 blockbuster Antarctica (南極物語, Nankyoku monogatari). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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