The Most Beautiful | |
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Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
Screenplay by | Akira Kurosawa |
Produced by | Motohiko Ito Jin Usami |
Starring | Takashi Shimura Yoko Yaguchi Ichiro Sugai Takako Irie |
Cinematography | Joji Ohara |
Music by | Sei'ichi Suzuki |
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Distributed by | Toho Company |
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Running time | 85 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
The Most Beautiful (Japanese: 一番美しく, Hepburn: Ichiban Utsukushiku) is a 1944 Japanese drama and propaganda film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The semidocumentary film follows a group of female volunteer workers at an optics factory during the Second World War, during which the film was produced.