Song of the Horse (1970)

Song of the Horse (1970)

Release Date: 1970, August 31
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ryō Kinoshita
Countries: Japan
Production: Kurosawa Production, Kurosawa Production, Nippon Television Network Corporation, Nippon Television Network Corporation
Cast: Noboru Mitani, Hiroyuki Kawase

Overview:

Akira Kurosawa’s only television work—a lyrical documentary that follows a thoroughbred from birth and training to the Japan Derby—framed by a grandfather’s narration to his grandson about the fading bond between people and horses.