Basic Info
Release: March 29, 1991
Runtime: 30 min
Status: Released
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
1991
30 min
Overview
True story (based on the book by Eleanor Coerr) about a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki, who was two years old when the atom bomb fell on her city of Hiroshima. Like so many other survivors of that horrific day, she subsequently developed leukemia. To keep herself occupied during her illness, she begins the monumental task of folding a thousand origami cranes--in the hopes that it will save her life.
Genres
War
Drama
Family
Animation
Production Countries
- United States of America
Spoken Languages
- English en
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Cast
Liv Ullmann
Narrator (voice)
Crew
George Levinson
Director
George Levinson
Screenplay
Victoria Trostle
Screenplay
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