The Most Beautiful

You work at a precision optics factory in wartime Japan, driven to exceed production quotas, but duty and grief collide, and the director frames their struggles.

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Akira Kurosawa directed The Most Beautiful in 1944. See Akira Kurosawa's full filmography, where to start with Akira Kurosawa, or where to go after you've seen everything by Akira Kurosawa.

The Most Beautiful was released in 1944 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 85 minutes.