1. The Most Beautiful (1944) directed by Akira Kurosawa • Reviews, film + cast
The Most Beautiful (1944) directed by Akira Kurosawa • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd.
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tremendous personal hardship, the women persevere in their tasks, devoted to their work and their country's cause.
2. The Most Beautiful - cinema - VPRO Gids
U bent hier: ... Japan 1944. Drama van Akira Kurosawa. Met o.a. Takashi Shimura, Ichirô Sugai, Soji Kiyokawa, Takako Irie en Yoko Yaguchi. Waar te zien?
Een van Kurosawa`s eerste films, met onder meer een propagandafilm over jonge arbeidsters die er door voorman Shimura (de ster van Kurosawa's IKIRU en SEVEN SAMURAI) toe worden aangezet in de wapenindustrie te gaan werken. De jonge Yaguchi is later met Kurosawa getrouwd. Pas in 1987 in Amerika uitgebracht.
3. The Most Beautiful (1944) | MUBI
Akira KurosawaDirector, Screenplay · Takashi ShimuraCast · Sôji KiyokawaCast · Ichirô SugaiCast · Takako IrieCast · Jôji OharaCinematography · Seiichi SuzukiMusic.
This portrait of female volunteer workers at an optics plant during World War II, shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory, was created with a patriotic agenda. Yet it anticipates the aesthetics of Japanese cinema’s postwar social realism.
4. REVIEW: The Most Beautiful (1944) - FictionMachine.
29 dec 2021 · REVIEW: The Most Beautiful (1944) ... Akira Kurosawa's second feature was a propaganda picture made at the behest of Japan's military government.
Akira Kurosawa’s second feature was a propaganda picture made at the behest of Japan’s military government. That likely prevents it from being anybody’s favourite Kurosawa film, b…
5. Kurosawa Watch: The Most Beautiful (1944) | I Make Up Worlds
24 jan 2021 · The film opens as the factory director, played by Takashi Shimura (who also appeared in Kurosawa's first film), speaks to the factory workers ...
Kurosawa Watch: The Most Beautiful (1944)
6. The Most Beautiful - Akira Kurosawa info
12 nov 2020 · Original title: 一番美しく (Ichiban utsukushiku) ; Original release date: 13 April 1944 ; Length: 85 minutes ; Director: Akira Kurosawa ; Screenplay ...
The Most Beautiful was Akira Kurosawa’s second film as a director. The wartime film follows a group of female factory workers struggling to meet production targets in order to aid Japan’s war efforts. The film was conceived as a propaganda film to conform to the censorship requirements of wartime Japan. Plot Summary As World War […]
7. The Most Beautiful (1944) - MyDramaList
18 jul 2023 · In 1944 Kurosawa Akira made The Most Beautiful, a propaganda movie about women volunteering to make lenses used in the war machine. Heavily ...
Director Kurosawa Akira's portrait of the lives of a group of female factory workers near the end of World War II, who are all willing to give up their...
8. The Most Beautiful - Rotten Tomatoes
If you ever wanted to miss a Kurosawa film, this minor film is the one.
Several young women work diligently in a factory despite illness and injury during World War II.
9. The Most Beautiful (aka Ichiban utsukushiku) (1944) film
The Most Beautiful (aka Ichiban utsukushiku) (1944) film. During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests ...
The Most Beautiful (aka Ichiban utsukushiku) (1944) film. During World War II, the management of a war industry of optical instruments for weapons requests an effort from the workers to increase the productivity during four months. The target for male workers is an increase of 100% of the production, but ...
10. The Most Beautiful | Moviepedia - Fandom
The Most Beautiful (一番美しく, Ichiban utsukushiku) is a 1944 Japanese drama and propaganda film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
11. The Most Beautiful | film by Kurosawa [1944] - Britannica
Other articles where The Most Beautiful is discussed: Kurosawa Akira: First films: …second film, Ichiban utsukushiku (The Most Beautiful), a story about ...
Other articles where The Most Beautiful is discussed: Kurosawa Akira: First films: …second film, Ichiban utsukushiku (The Most Beautiful), a story about girls at work in an arsenal. Immediately thereafter, he married the actress who had played the leading part in the picture, Yaguchi Yoko; they had two children, a son and a daughter. In August 1945, when Japan offered to…
12. Something Like a Filmography: The Most Beautiful (1944) - Cinema Dual
30 jan 2024 · ANYTHING ELSE, CHRIS? Coming back again to the work of Donald Richie, I'm struck by how Kurosawa frames this obviously scripted film with ...
Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kuro…
13. Kurosawa, In Order #2 – The Most Beautiful - Where the Long Tail Ends
The principal character is Watanabe (Yoko Yaguchi ) who is the de facto leader of the women. The film follows an episodic structure for the remainder as we see ...
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL (1944)