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Those Who Make Tomorrow
JAPAN · 1946

Those Who Make Tomorrow

Akira Kurosawa
labor movement class struggle postwar Japan family conflict women's activism
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Synopsis

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

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