Eclipse Series 23: THE FIRST FILMS OF AKIRA KUROSAWA: KUROSAWA, Akira: The Most Beautiful (1944)

KUROSAWA, Akira (Japan)
The Most Beautiful [1944]
Eclipse Series 23
DVD


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.


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