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The Most Beautiful

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.

1944 |1h 25m |  Drama, War

Cast

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Takashi Shimura

Chief Goro Ishida

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Shōji Kiyokawa

Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section

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Ichirō Sugai

Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section

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Takako Irie

Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother

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Yôko Yaguchi

Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers

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Sachiko Ozaki

Sachiko Yamazaki

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Shizuko Nishigaki

Fusae Nishioka

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Asako Suzuki

Asako Suzumura

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Kazuko Hitomi

Kazuko Futomi

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Shizuko Yamada

Hisae Yamaguchi

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Itoko Kōno

Sue Okabe

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Michiko Oikawa

Michiko Ayukawa (uncredited)

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Unpei Yokoyama

Dormitory worker (uncredited)

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Chieko Nakakita

Student worker (uncredited)

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Status

Released

Language

Japanese

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