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Horse (1940)

Horse poster
Original title
Directed by
Kajirō Yamamoto, Akira Kurosawa
Genre
drama film
Country
Japan
Runtime
2h 09m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 6 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman in rural Japan raises a horse from birth. The film follows her deep bond with the animal and her determination to keep it as it grows.

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What happens

Horse (Japanese: 馬, Hepburn: Uma) 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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