After struggling through the production of "Dodesukaden", Kurosawa turned to television work the following year for the only time in his career with "Song of the Horse, " a documentary about thoroughbred race horses. It featured a voice-over narrated by a fictional man and a child (voiced by the same actors as the beggar and his son in "Dodesukaden"). It is the only documentary in Kurosawa's filmography; the small crew included his frequent collaborator Masaru Sato, who composed the music. "Song of the Horse" is also unique in Kurosawa’s oeuvre in that it includes an editor’s credit, suggesting that it is the only Kurosawa film that he did not cut himself.