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

Takashi Shimura

Chief Goro Ishida

Shōji Kiyokawa

Soichi Yoshikawa, Chief of General Affairs Section

Ichirō Sugai

Ken Shinda, Chief of Labor Section

Takako Irie

Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother

Yôko Yaguchi

Tsuru Watanabe, president of women workers