The most beautiful
(DVD)

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Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998. Director
Itō, Motohiko. Producer
Usami, Jin. Producer
Obara, Joji. Cinematographer
Yaguchi, Yoko. Actor
Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2010.
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in.
Status
On Shelf
Atascadero Library - Adult DVD - Adult Audiovisual
Fiction
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Subjects

LC Subjects
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures -- Japan.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
War films.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan -- Drama.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Japan -- Drama.

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Published
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2010.
Format
DVD
Edition
Full screen.
Language
jpn

Notes

General Note
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1944.
General Note
Issued as part of the box set: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa.
Creation/Production Credits
Production design, Teruaki Abe ; music, Seichi Suzuki.
Participants/Performers
Yoko Yaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Soji Kiyokawa, Ichiro Sugai, Takako Irie, Sayuri Tanima, Sachiko Ozaki, Asako Suzuki, Haruko Toyama.
Description
Akira Kurosawa's patriotic World War II morale booster focuses on a volunteer corps of women working at an optics factory to produce lenses for binoculars and targeting scopes, and was shot on location at the Nippon Kogaku factory in Hiratsuka.
System Details
DVD; region 1, NTSC ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; mono.
Language
In Japanese with English subtitles.

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