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 like uma to turn an overall innocent story into propaganda. The film was in 1941 officially supported and praised by the Japanese government. An official government statement commented: “Feel Gratitude in your hear and lend yourself to support the war effort” and Army Minister Tojo Hideki commented: “Only by means of the heartfelt affection of the breeders can fine horses – a mobile weapon that will become increasingly necessary in the future – be raised.”
A film about a teenager fond of horses, that turns into a propaganda film – so why should you be interested? Uma directed by Kajiro Yamamoto is often regarded as being the first film with a major involvement of Akira Kurosawa – who apart from his job as assistant director was said to have a love affair with the film’s teen aged star Takamine Hideko. Takamine herself was already one of the greatest stars of Japanese cinema, affectionately referred to as “Deko-chan” by her fans. After the war she would appear in many famous movies, most prominently in the works of Kinoshita and Naruse.

片子是在偷袭珍珠港后一年拍摄，导演山本嘉次郎，特摄指导丹谷英二，故事是描写一个帝国海军少年兵的成长，以迄完成偷袭珍珠港的任务。

ちゃっきり金太」「どんぐり頓兵衛」などに代表される山本嘉次郎＝エノケンのコンビが贈る戦前最後の作品。日劇ダンシング・チームのレビューが散りばめられたドタバタ喜劇。中でもエノケンとのトンでるかけ合いは笑える。日米開戦直前の作品にもかかわらずポパイのほうれん草のギャグもある。

落語家・新笑（五代目・古今亭志ん生）の家に居候する３人（高峰秀子・笠置シズ子・灰田勝彦）が、お金を稼ぐために銀座のバーを流しながら歌を歌う。当時の銀座を舞台に貧しいながらも希望を捨てず生きる若者達を描く。挿入歌である「銀座カンカン娘」」「わが夢わが歌」は当時の大ヒット曲となり一世を風靡した。

李香兰从影20周年纪念作品。

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。

三上、村上、川上三人是號稱雷擊之神的黃金組合。後來三上奉命以隊長的身分調派到中太平洋的基地，另外兩人則留在船上待命，然而基地不斷的遭受敵軍攻擊，讓村上和川上非常的擔心。終於基地提出申請補充飛行員的要求，而這兩人也就到了基地。就在兩人抵達基地的時候，無線電傳出發現敵軍的報告，於是三上與村上馬上出擊，並將敵軍全部消滅，可是卻也失去了不少同袍戰友的生命。

加藤隼战斗队,二战著名空战大片,44年的日本电影
大部分空战镜头都是航拍的,扮演敌人的就是缴获的P40和F2A水牛。日本的是陆军的1式奥斯卡
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Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".