Horse

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Kajirō Yamamoto

Writers

Kajirō Yamamoto, Akira Kurosawa

Language

Japanese

Country

Japan

Release date

11 March 1941

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Hideko Takamine

  Ine Onoda

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  Chieko Takehisa

  Saku Onoda, Ine's mother

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  Kamatari Fujiwara

  Jinjiro Onoda, Ine's father

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  Kaoru Futaba

  Ei, Ine's grandmother

• Takeshi Hirata

  Toyokazu Onoda, Ine's older brother

• Toshio Hosoi

  Kinjiro Onoda, Ine's younger brother

• Setsuko Ichikawa

  Tsuru Onoda, Ine's little sister

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  Sadao Maruyama

  Master Yamashita, the teacher

• 

  Sadako Sawamura

  Kikuko Yamashita

• 

  Yoshio Kosugi

  Zenzo Sakuma

• 

  Tsuruko Mano

  Mrs. Sakuma

• Ayako Matsuoka

  Their daughter