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.
Cast
Akitake Kōno
Fire and drum band instructor (uncredited)
Unpei Yokoyama
Dormitory worker (uncredited)
Shizuko Yamada
Hisae Yamaguchi
Itoko Kono
Sue Okabe
Chieko Nakakita
Student worker (uncredited)
Shizuko Nishigaki
Fusae Nishioka
Michiko Oikawa
Michiko Ayukawa (uncredited)
Takashi Shimura
Chief Goro Ishida
Shōji Kiyokawa
Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section
Ichirō Sugai
Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section
Yôko Yaguchi
Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers
Asako Suzuki
Asako Suzumura
Takako Irie
Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Sachiko Ozaki
Sachiko Yamazaki
Kazuko Hitomi
Kazuko Futomi