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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.
Original Release
09/15/1954
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Hideki Gôko | Isokichi Okada - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Itsuo Watanabe | Takeichi Takeshita - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Makoto Miyagawa | Kichiji Tokuda - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Takeo Terashita | Tadashi Morioka - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Kunio Satô | Nita Aizawa - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Hiroko Ishii | Masuno Kagawa - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Yasuko Koike | Misako Nishiguchi - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Setsuko Kusano | Matsue Kawamoto - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Kaoko Kase | Sanae Yamaishi - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Yumiko Tanabe | Kotsuru Kabe - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Directors
Writers
Keisuke Kinoshita, Sakae Tsuboi
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hideki Gôko | Isokichi Okada - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Itsuo Watanabe | Takeichi Takeshita - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Makoto Miyagawa | Kichiji Tokuda - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Takeo Terashita | Tadashi Morioka - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Kunio Satô | Nita Aizawa - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Hiroko Ishii | Masuno Kagawa - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Yasuko Koike | Misako Nishiguchi - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Setsuko Kusano | Matsue Kawamoto - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Kaoko Kase | Sanae Yamaishi - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Yumiko Tanabe | Kotsuru Kabe - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Ikuko Kanbara | Fujiko Kinoshita - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Hiroko Uehara | Kotoe Katagiri - Bunkyôjô Jidai |
Hitoshi Gôko | Isokichi Okada - Honkô Jidai |
Shirô Watanabe | Takeichi Takeshita - Honkô Jidai |
Jun'ichi Miyagawa | Kichiji Tokuda - Honkô Jidai |
Takeaki Terashita | Tadashi Morioka - Honkô Jidai |
Takeshi Satô | Nita Aizawa - Honkô Jidai |
Shisako Ishii | Masuno Kagawa - Honkô Jidai |
Akiko Koike | Misako Nishiguchi in upper class |
Sadako Kusano | Matsue Kawamoto - Honkô Jidai |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ryôtarô Kuwata | Producer |
Editors
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1955 | Golden Globe | Best Foreign Film | Won |