Those Who Make Tomorrow (1946)
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.
- Released
- 1946-05-02
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Hideo Sekigawa, Kajirō Yamamoto, Akira Kurosawa
- TMDB rating
- 10.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Chieko Nakakita as Yoshiko Okamoto, Elder Sister
- Mitsue Tachibana as Aiko Okamoto, Younger sister
- Itoko Kono as Fumie, Actress
- Yuriko Hamada as Tokiko, Second Dancing Girl
- Michiko Kayama as Kimiko, Dancing Girl (uncredited)
- Sayuri Tanima as Shizumi, Dancing girl (uncredited)
- Sumie Tsubaki as Chiyoko Hori, Chauffeur's Wife (uncredited)
- Hideko Takamine as Takamine
- Susumu Fujita as Fujita
- Kenji Susukida as Gintaro Okamoto, Father
- Chieko Takehisa as Kin Okamoto, Mother
- Masayuki Mori as Seizo Hori, Chauffeur (uncredited)