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5.5Young 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.
Released: 1944-04-1385 minDir: Akira KurosawaDrama, War
Stream on: Criterion Channel
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
Themes
- factory
- world war ii
- working women
- optical
- musical instruments
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Original language
- Japanese
- Main subject
- World War II
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Screenwriter
- Akira Kurosawa
- Production company
- Toho
- Duration
- 85
- FilmAffinity ID
- 959472
- Image
- Ichiban utsukushiku poster.jpg
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- publication date
- 1944-01-01
- title
- 一番美しく
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Toho
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- factory
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