Horse

Horse (1941)

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Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.

Date of release
1941-03-11
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (6)
Runtime
2h 7m
Genres
Drama
Director
Kajirō Yamamoto

Casting

Interesting facts

Horse is a 1941 black-and-white Japanese drama film written and directed by Kajirō Yamamoto and starring Hideko Takamine. It is now best known for being the last film that Akira Kurosawa worked on before starting his own directorial career.

Production

Horse was written and directed by Kajirō Yamamoto. Akira Kurosawa is credited as the film's production coordinator, but in his autobiography, Something Like an Autobiography, Kurosawa likened his actual role to "first assistant director". It is the last film Kurosawa worked on as an assistant before starting his own directing career. The film took three years to plan and a year to film.

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