The Most Beautiful
一番美しく
Japan • 1944
Director
Synopsis
This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda. Yet thanks to Akira Kurosawa's groundbreaking semidocumentary approach, The Most Beautiful is a revealing look at Japanese women of the era and anticipates the aesthetics of Japanese cinema's postwar social realism.
Synopsis
This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda. Yet thanks to Akira Kurosawa's groundbreaking semidocumentary approach, The Most Beautiful is a revealing look at Japanese women of the era and anticipates the aesthetics of Japanese cinema's postwar social realism.
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Credits
Crew
DirectorAkira Kurosawa
WriterAkira Kurosawa
CinematographerJōji Ohara
ComposerSeiichi Suzuki
ProducerMotohiko Itō, Jin Usami
Cast
Takashi Shimuraas Chief Goro Ishida
Shōji Kiyokawaas Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section
Ichirō Sugaias Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section
Takako Irieas Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother