The Most Beautiful

Plot Summary

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.

Top 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