Eclipse Series 23: THE FIRST FILMS OF AKIRA KUROSAWA: KUROSAWA, Akira: The Most Beautiful (1944)
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 thanks to Akira Kurosawa's groundbreaking semidocumentary approach, The Most Beautiful is a revealing look at Japanese women of the era and anticipates the aesthetics of Japanese cinema's postwar social realism.
85 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
in Japanese
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2010
Director/Writer
Akira Kurosawa was 34 when he directed The Most Beautiful.
Other Kurosawa films in the Collection:
Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945)
Eclipse Series 23: The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail (1945)
Eclipse Series 7: No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)
Eclipse Series 7: One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945)
Eclipse Series 23: The Men Who Tread On The Tiger's Tail (1945)
Eclipse Series 7: No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)
Eclipse Series 7: One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
#24: High And Low (1963)
#159: Red Beard (1965)
#465: Dodes'ka-den (1970)
#267: Kagemusha (1980)
#316: Ran (1985)
#159: Red Beard (1965)
#465: Dodes'ka-den (1970)
#267: Kagemusha (1980)
#316: Ran (1985)
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