The Most Beautiful (1944)

The Most Beautiful
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  • Genre: Drama War
  • Running time: 85 min
  • Premiere: 13th of April 1944

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.

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Cast

Takashi Shimura
as Chief Goro Ishida
Unpei Yokoyama
as Dormitory worker (uncredited)
Ichirō Sugai
as Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section
Itoko Kōno
as Sue Okabe
Takako Irie
as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Chieko Nakakita
as Student worker (uncredited)
Yôko Yaguchi
as Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers
Shōji Kiyokawa
as Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section
Michiko Oikawa
as Michiko Ayukawa (uncredited)
Asako Suzuki
as Asako Suzumura
Sachiko Ozaki
as Sachiko Yamazaki
Shizuko Nishigaki
as Fusae Nishioka
Kazuko Hitomi
as Kazuko Futomi
Shizuko Yamada
as Hisae Yamaguchi

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