Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)

Original title

二十四の瞳

Directed by

Keisuke Kinoshita

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 36m

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 92 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young schoolteacher moves to a small island village in Japan to teach twelve first graders. She stays with them through years of hardship and war, watching them grow up and face difficult changes.

melancholicpoignanttenderbittersweetslow-pacedemotionally resonantgentlereflective

What happens

Twenty-Four Eyes (Japanese: 二十四の瞳, Hepburn: Nijū-shi no Hitomi) is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Sakae Tsuboi. The film stars Hideko Takamine as a young schoolteacher who lives during the rise and fall of Japanese nationalism in the early Shōwa period, and has been noted for its anti-war theme. Twenty-Four Eyes was released in Japan by Shochiku on 15 September 1954, where it received generally positive reviews and was a commercial success. It received numerous awards, including the Blue Ribbon Award, the Mainichi Film Award and the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of 1954, and the Golden Globe Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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