Those Who Make Tomorrow

Those Who Make Tomorrow (明日を作る人々, Asu o tsukuru hitobito) is a 1946 film written by Yusaku Yamagata and Kajiro Yamamoto and directed by Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto. Kurosawa would later leave the film out of his credits.

Plot

Two sisters, Chieko Nakakita as the elder and Mitsue Tachibana as the younger sister, 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.

Cast

• Susumu Fujita - Fujita
• Hideko Takamine - Takamine
• Kenji Susukida - Gintaro Okamoto, Father
• Masayuki Mori - Seizo Hori, Chauffeur
• Chieko Takehisa - Kin Okamoto, Mother
• Takashi Shimura - Theatre manager
• Yonosuke Toba - Okamoto's colleague
• Masao Shimizu - Section chief
• Hyo Kitazawa - Director

External links

• Those Who Make Tomorrow at the Internet Movie Database
• Those Who Make Tomorrow at AllMovie
• Those Who Make Tomorrow (Japanese) at the Japanese Movie Database