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