The Most Beautiful

  • Drama
  • War
4/13/1944
85

Storyline

Young women at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan push to exceed production quotas, enduring illness, injury, and personal hardship to “serve the country.” Led by Tsuru Watanabe, they fight fatigue and setbacks to keep their line moving—even when duty collides with grief.

Director:
Akira Kurosawa
Writer:
Akira Kurosawa
    • factory
    • world war ii
    • working women
    • optical
    • musical instruments

    Cast

    • Takashi Shimura
      Chief Goro Ishida
    • Shōji Kiyokawa
      Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section
    • Ichirō Sugai
      Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section
    • Takako Irie
      Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
    • Yôko Yaguchi
      Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers
    • Sayuri Tanima
      Yuriko Tanimura, vice president of women workers
    • Sachiko Ozaki
      Sachiko Yamazaki
    • Shizuko Nishigaki
      Fusae Nishioka
    • Asako Suzuki
      Asako Suzumura
    • Haruko Toyama
      Masako Koyama
    • Aiko Masu
      Tokiko Hiroda
    • Kazuko Hitomi
      Kazuko Futomi
    • Shizuko Yamada
      Hisae Yamaguchi
    • Itoko Kōno
      Sue Okabe
    • Emiko Rei
      Chie Shima (uncredited)
    • Haruko Mii
      Haruko Kawai (uncredited)

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