A film that helped launched Akira Kurosawa's career as director in his own right. He did a lot of behind the scenes stuff here and essentially helped out the film's proper director by completing his movie for him. It's a rather dated affair, a bit pedestrian and overlong, but it does tell an effectively sentimental story about a young woman and her loving relationship with a foal that comes into her care. Some satire of the Japanese military mindset is added to the mix.
Review of Uma
