Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (1991)

Name: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Director: George Levinson
Genre: Drama, Animated, War, Family
Released: 1991
Cast: Liv Ullmann

0h 30m IMDb

Drama Animated War Family

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.