Those Who Make Tomorrow

Those Who Make Tomorrow

82 mins | Drama | May 2, 1946

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 himself loses his job.

Those Who Make Tomorrow

82 mins | Drama | May 2, 1946

Those Who Make Tomorrow
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 himself loses his job.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Toho Company, Ltd.
Original title 明日を創る人々
Directors Hideo Sekigawa, Kajirō Yamamoto, Akira Kurosawa
Writers Yusaku Yamagata, Kajirō Yamamoto

Cast

Chieko Nakakita

as Yoshiko Okamoto, Elder Sister

Mitsue Tachibana

as Aiko Okamoto, Younger sister

Itoko Kôno

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)

Ichirô Chiba

as Matsui, Light Man (uncredited)

Takashi Shimura

as Theatre manager (uncredited)

Masao Shimizu

as Section chief (uncredited)

Hyo Kitazawa

as Director (uncredited)

Kenzo Asada

as Kume (uncredited)

Yônosuke Toba

as Okamoto's colleague (uncredited)

Sachiko Mitani

as Haruko, Dancing girl (uncredited)

Seizaburō Kawazu

as Himself (uncredited)