Release Date
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Original Release
April 13, 1944
1h 25m
The Most Beautiful (1944)
⭐ 5.685 min
Overview
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
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 6.0
Cast
Takashi Shimura
Chief Goro Ishida
⭐2.1
Shōji Kiyokawa
Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section
⭐0.7
Ichirō Sugai
Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section
⭐0.9
Takako Irie
Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
⭐1.4
Yôko Yaguchi
Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers
⭐0.6
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Sayuri Tanima
Yuriko Tanimura, vice president of women workers
⭐0.9
Sachiko Ozaki
Sachiko Yamazaki
⭐0.4
Shizuko Nishigaki
Fusae Nishioka
⭐0.4
Asako Suzuki
Asako Suzumura
⭐0.5
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Haruko Toyama
Masako Koyama
⭐0.5
Genres
DramaWar
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