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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.
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- Apr 13, 1944
- 1h 25m
- Japanese
- Akira Kurosawa
- Akira Kurosawa
- Released
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