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Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946)
Directed by Hideo Sekigawa, Kajirō Yamamoto, Akira Kurosawa
Drama · 1h 22m
In postwar Japan, two sisters—a film studio script girl and a revue dancer—become swept up in the growing labor movement when workers around them strike for better conditions. As their conservative father opposes their activism, his own dismissal forces him to confront the realities of class struggle and join their fight for a fairer future. Now considered a lost film, Those Who Make Tomorrow was produced by Toho to promote unionization during Japan’s Allied Occupation.
Cast
Chieko Nakakita
Yoshiko Okamoto, Elder Sister
Mitsue Tachibana
Aiko Okamoto, Younger sister
Itoko Kono
Fumie, Actress
Yuriko Hamada
Tokiko, Second Dancing Girl
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Michiko Kayama
Kimiko, Dancing Girl (uncredited)
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Sayuri Tanima
Shizumi, Dancing girl (uncredited)
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Sumie Tsubaki
Chiyoko Hori, Chauffeur's Wife (uncredited)
Hideko Takamine
Takamine
Susumu Fujita
Fujita
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Kenji Susukida
Gintaro Okamoto, Father
Chieko Takehisa
Kin Okamoto, Mother
Masayuki Mori
Seizo Hori, Chauffeur (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Hideo Sekigawa, Kajirō Yamamoto, Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Yusaku Yamagata, Kajirō Yamamoto
- Director of Photography
- Takeo Itō, Taiichi Kankura, Mitsuo Miura
- Original Music Composer
- Noboru Itō
- Editor
- Yoshiki Nagasawa
Details
- Original title
- 明日を創る人々
- Release date
- 1946-05-02
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- TOHO