

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.

Hideko Takamine
Ine Onoda
Lead
Chieko Takehisa
Saku Onoda, Ine's mother

Kamatari Fujiwara
Jinjiro Onoda, Ine's father

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

Sadao Maruyama
Master Yamashita, the teacher
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