The Most Beautiful

Original title: 一番美しく

Duration: 85 min

Release date: 1944-04-13

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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.

Drama War

一番美しく

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Takashi Shimura

Takashi Shimura

as Chief Goro Ishida

Shōji Kiyokawa

as Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section

as Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section

as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother

as Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers

as Yuriko Tanimura, vice president of women workers

as Sachiko Yamazaki

Shizuko Nishigaki

Shizuko Nishigaki

as Fusae Nishioka

as Asako Suzumura

as Masako Koyama

as Tokiko Hiroda

as Kazuko Futomi

as Hisae Yamaguchi

as Chie Shima (uncredited)

as Haruko Kawai (uncredited)

Minori Toyohara

Minori Toyohara

as Minori Yoyota (uncredited)

as Yoshiko Shirayama (uncredited)

Harue Yamashita

Harue Yamashita

as Kiyo Mishima (uncredited)

as Mineko Bando (uncredited)

as Shizue Miyazaki (uncredited)

as Michiko Ayukawa (uncredited)

as Teruko Sato (uncredited)

as Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited)

as Dormitory worker (uncredited)

Chieko Nakakita

Chieko Nakakita

as Student worker (uncredited)

as Factory worker (uncredited)

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