The Most Beautiful

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1944 85 min U Drama · War

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.

Directed by Akira Kurosawa · Written by Akira Kurosawa

Starring Takashi Shimura, Shōji Kiyokawa, Ichirō Sugai, Takako Irie, Yôko Yaguchi, Sayuri Tanima

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