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.

• Akira KurosawaDirector
• Akira KurosawaWriter

• Takashi ShimuraChief Goro Ishida
• Shōji KiyokawaSoichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section
• Ichirō SugaiKen Shinda, Chief of Labor Section
• Takako IrieNoriko Mizushima, dorm mother
• Yôko YaguchiTsuru Watanabe, president of women workers
• Sayuri TanimaYuriko Tanimura, vice president of women workers
• Sachiko OzakiSachiko Yamazaki
• Shizuko NishigakiFusae Nishioka
• Asako SuzukiAsako Suzumura
• Haruko ToyamaMasako Koyama
• Aiko MasuTokiko Hiroda
• Kazuko HitomiKazuko Futomi