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.
Cast
Chieko Nakakita
Yoshiko Okamoto, Elder Sister
Mitsue Tachibana
Aiko Okamoto, Younger sister
Itoko Kōno
Fumie, Actress
Yuriko Hamada
Tokiko, Second Dancing Girl
Michiko Kayama
Kimiko, Dancing Girl (uncredited)
Sayuri Tanima
Shizumi, Dancing girl (uncredited)
Sumie Tsubaki
Chiyoko Hori, Chauffeur's Wife (uncredited)
Hideko Takamine
Takamine
Susumu Fujita
Fujita
Kenji Susukida
Gintaro Okamoto, Father
Chieko Takehisa
Kin Okamoto, Mother
Masayuki Mori
Seizo Hori, Chauffeur (uncredited)
Ichirō Chiba
Matsui, Light Man (uncredited)
Takashi Shimura
Theatre manager (uncredited)
Masao Shimizu
Section chief (uncredited)
Hyo Kitazawa
Director (uncredited)
Kenzo Asada
Kume (uncredited)
Yōnosuke Toba
Okamoto's colleague (uncredited)
Sachiko Mitani
Haruko, Dancing girl (uncredited)
Seizaburō Kawazu
Himself (uncredited)
Crew
Hideo Sekigawa
Director
Kajirō Yamamoto
Director, Writer
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Yusaku Yamagata
Writer
Yoshiki Nagasawa
Editor
Takeo Itō
Director of Photography
Taiichi Kankura
Director of Photography
Mitsuo Miura
Director of Photography
Toshio Sugie
Assistant Director
Shigeaki Hidaka
Assistant Director
Tomoyuki Tanaka
Executive Producer
Keiji Matsuzaki
Executive Producer
Ryo Takei
Executive Producer
Sōjirō Motoki
Executive Producer
Takeo Kita
Production Design
Keiji Kitagawa
Production Design
Isamu Suzuki
Sound
Masatoshi Kuga
Sound
Noboru Itō
Original Music Composer
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