The Most Beautiful(1944)

🎬85 min
📅1944-04-13
🎭Drama, War
5.6/10

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.

Production

TOHO

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Cast

Takashi Shimura
as Chief Goro Ishida
Shōji Kiyokawa
as Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section
Ichirō Sugai
as Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section
Takako Irie
as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Yôko Yaguchi
as Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers
Sayuri Tanima
as Yuriko Tanimura, vice president of women workers
Sachiko Ozaki
as Sachiko Yamazaki
Shizuko Nishigaki
as Fusae Nishioka
Asako Suzuki
as Asako Suzumura
Haruko Toyama
as Masako Koyama