The Most Beautiful (1944)
04/13/1944 (JP) • 1h 25m
Overview
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.
Top Billed Cast
Chief Goro Ishida
Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section
Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section
Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers
Yuriko Tanimura, vice president of women workers
Sachiko Yamazaki
Fusae Nishioka
Asako Suzumura
Recommendations
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
67%
Floating Weeds
74%
Sanshiro Sugata
65%
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
61%
No Regrets for Our Youth
69%
The New Janitor
62%
Oppenheimer
80%
Joker
81%
Julieta
70%
Shutter Island
82%
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
74%
The Psychic
70%
Cries and Whispers
79%
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
73%
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
82%
The Isle
69%
The Piano Teacher
72%
Last Tango in Paris
69%
Eden Lake
68%
The Year of Living Dangerously
67%
© All Rights Reserved 2025