TWENTY-FOUR EYES (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1954
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Keisuke Kinoshita’s Twenty-Four Eyes (Nijushi no hitomi) is an elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher’s unwavering commitment to her students, her profession, and her sense of morality. Set in a remote, rural island community and spanning decades of Japanese history, from 1928 through World War II and beyond, Kinoshita’s film takes a simultaneously sober and sentimental look at the epic themes of aging, war, and death, all from the lovingly intimate perspective of Hisako Oshi (Hideko Takamine), as she watches her pupils grow and deal with life’s harsh realities. Though little known in the United States, Twenty-Four Eyes is one of Japan’s most popular and enduring classics.
• Cast: Hideki Gôko, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa, Takeo Terashita, Kunio Satô, Hiroko Ishii, Yasuko Koike, Setsuko Kusano, Kaoko Kase, Yumiko Tanabe, Ikuko Kanbara, Hiroko Uehara, Hitoshi Gôko, Shirô Watanabe, Jun'ichi Miyagawa, Takeaki Terashita, Takeshi Satô, Shisako Ishii, Akiko Koike, Sadako Kusano, Kayoko Kase, Naoko Tanabe, Toyoko Ozu, Masako Uehara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Toshiko Kobayashi, Kuniko Igawa, Takahiro Tamura, Chishû Ryû, Shizue Natsukawa, Kumeko Urabe, Nijiko Kiyokawa, Chieko Naniwa, Ushio Akashi, Hideyo Amamoto, Toshio Takahara, Tokuji Kobayashi, Toyo Takahashi, Toyoko Shinohara, Mayumi Minami, Kimiyo Ôtsuka, Tazuko Kusaka, Kazuko Motohashi, Rei Miura, Yasukuni Toida, Yoshikazu Ôtsuki, Tatsuo Shimizu, Yoshiko Nagai, Shôsuke Oni, Nobuo Takagi, Tsutomu Uemura, Kayoko Terada, Toshiyuki Yashiro, Yutaka Yashiro, Naoji Kinoshita, Hisayuki Ukita, Keiko Gôko, Hideko Takamine, Keisuke Kinoshita, Sakae Tsuboi, Ryôtarô Kuwata, Hiroshi Kusuda, Yoshi Sugihara, Chûji Kinoshita, Hisao Ôno, Kimihiko Nakamura
• Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
• Runtime: 2:36
• Company: Shochiku Co., Ltd. (Shôchiku Eiga), Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie