拍于东宝工潮时期,由当时的工会企划制作,山本嘉次郎、黑泽明、关川秀雄作为工会会员联合执导。黑泽明未将其视为自己的作品。
The story of the film is simple: A young girl in the countryside raises a young horse and develops a deep relationship to the animal. But the war is becoming part of life, so in the end she has to sacrifice her horse and sell it to the military.
The idea of propaganda film has been discussed by various scholars. Donald Keene mentioned that it only takes the ending of a film lik...