Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946)
1h 22m
Running Time
May 2, 1946Release Date
Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946)
1h 22m
Running Time
May 2, 1946Release Date
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Plot.
Two sisters, one a dancer and the other a script supervisor at a big movie studio, become embroiled in union activities when a strike is called in sympathy with striking railroad workers, one of whom boards with the sisters and their parents. The girls' father argues with them about their strike but finds his views changing when he loses his job. Considered a lost film.
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Cast & Crew.
Chieko Nakakita
Yoshiko Okamoto, Elder Sister
Mitsue Tachibana
Aiko Okamoto, Younger sister
Takashi Shimura
Theatre manager
Itoko Kōno
Fumie, Actress
Kenji Susukida
Gintaro Okamoto, Father
Yuriko Hamada
Tokiko, Second Dancing Girl
Masayuki Mori
Seizo Hori, Chauffeur
Sumie Tsubaki
Chiyoko Hori, Chauffeur's Wife
Michiko Kayama
Kimiko, Dancing Girl (uncredited)
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Sayuri Tanima
Shizumi, Dancing girl (uncredited)
Hideo Sekigawa
Director
Hideko Takamine
Takamine
Kajirō Yamamoto
Director
Yusaku Yamagata
Writer
Susumu Fujita
Fujita
Keiji Matsuzaki
Producer
Chieko Takehisa
Kin Okamoto, Mother
Sōjirō Motoki
Producer
Ichirō Chiba
Matsui, Light Man (uncredited)
Masao Shimizu
Section chief (uncredited)
Hyo Kitazawa
Director (uncredited)
Kenzo Asada
Kume (uncredited)
Yōnosuke Toba
Okamoto's colleague (uncredited)
Details.
Wiki.
Those Who Make Tomorrow (明日を創る人々, Asu o tsukuru hitobito) is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Sekigawa and Kajirō Yamamoto (who was also co-writer). It was produced to illustrate the purpose of the workers' union at the Toho film studios, as the Allied Forces endorsed the formation of unions as part of the democratisation process during the post-World War II Occupation of Japan. Toho's studio stars Hideko Takamine and Susumu Fujita appear playing themselves.