The Most Beautiful

The Most Beautiful
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAkira Kurosawa
Screenplay byAkira Kurosawa
Produced byMotohiko Ito
Jin Usami
StarringTakashi Shimura
Yoko Yaguchi
Ichiro Sugai
Takako Irie
CinematographyJoji Ohara
Music bySei'ichi Suzuki [ja]
Production
company
Distributed byToho Company
Release date
  • April 13, 1944 (1944-04-13)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

The Most Beautiful (Japanese: 一番美しく, Hepburn: Ichiban Utsukushiku) is a 1944 Japanese drama and propaganda film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The semidocumentary film follows a group of female volunteer workers at an optics factory during the Second World War, during which the film was produced.