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The Most Beautiful is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Akira Kurosawa released in france in DVD on 28 october 2015 with Yōko Yaguchi

The Most Beautiful (1944)

Ichiban utsukushiku

The Most Beautiful
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Release in DVD in france 28 october 2015
Length 1h25
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    War
Rating57% 2.8506152.8506152.8506152.8506152.850615

The Most Beautiful (一番美しく, Ichiban utsukushiku, aka Most Beautifully) is a 1944 Japanese propaganda drama film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.

The film is set in an optics factory during the Second World War.

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Yōko Yaguchi

(Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers)
Takashi Shimura

(Chief Goro Ishida)
Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎)

(Ken Shinda, Chef de section de la main-d'œuvre)
Takako Irie

(Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother)
Michiko Oikawa

(Michiko Ayukawa (uncredited))
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