The Most Beautiful
6.2 /10 1 Votes
Duration Country Japan | 6/10 IMDb Genre Drama Music director Seiichi Suzuki Language Japanese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date April 13, 1944 (1944-04-13) Cast (Chief Goro Ishida), Shôji Kiyokawa (Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section), Ichirô Sugai (Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section), (Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother), Yôko Yaguchi (Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers), Sayuri Tanima (Yuriko Tanimura, vice president of women workers)Similar movies Directed by Akira Kurosawa, Movies about Japan, World War II movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Most Beautiful (一番美しく, Ichiban utsukushiku) is a 1944 Japanese drama film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film is set in an optics factory during the Second World War when the film was produced.
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Plot
The film depicts the struggle for the workers at a lens factory to meet production targets during World War II. They continually drive themselves, both singly and as a group, to exceed the targets set for them by the factory directors.
Cast
Takashi Shimura
Takako Irie
Critical reception
Paul Anderer of Columbia University has commented on the subtext of the film having been released during the war years for Japan. Anderer offers the opinion that; "It is as if Kurosawa himself were in this lineup (of directors under state scrutiny), frozen inside wartime, when any significant movement or resistance to the authority would be stillborn. Surrounded by a censorship apparatus far more resourceful and intimidating, he would later claim, than anything the American Occupation threw his way, he had few thematic or tonal options: historical tributes to Japanese spiritual and martial values (like Sanshiro Sugata and its weaker sequel), or patriotic odes to factor production and sacrificial domesticity (e.g., The Most Beautiful, 1944)".
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