Foreign Film Friday: “The Most Beautiful” by Kurosawa

(1944, 1h 25m, Japan, Docudrama by Akira Kurosawa) 

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.

Classic movies from around the world every Friday!
Donation-based admission. Light refreshments available.

Flood Gallery Fine Art Center
Centrally located just off I-240 Exit 8; River Ridge Business Center, Suite 1200, 802 Fairview Rd, Asheville 28803 (behind Hamrick’s and Sun Soo Martial Arts, next to Hot Yoga Asheville and Asheville Dance Theater)

Original propaganda movie poster