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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
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- 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
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1940s Japanese-language films1944 drama films1944 films1944 Japanese filmsFilms directed by Akira KurosawaFilms set in factoriesFilms with screenplays by Akira KurosawaJapanese black-and-white filmsJapanese drama filmsJapanese-language drama filmsJapanese World War II propaganda filmsTemplate film date with 1 release date