Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
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.
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- Overview
- Cast
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Status
Released
Release Date
Mar 29, 1991
Runtime
0h 30m
Genres
War, Drama, Family, Animation
Original Title
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Director
George Levinson
Description
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.
