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Director Akira Kurosawa
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Akira Kurosawa's second film, a groundbreaking semidocumentary portrait of women workers on Japan's home front. At a wartime optics factory, a volunteer corps of young women pushes to meet impossible production quotas, hiding illness, injury and heartbreak to keep the lenses coming, and to keep faith with one another. Free with ads.