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Audio Format: DD 2.0
Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Black & White)
Languages: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Region Code: 1
Year Made: 1954
Running Time: 156
Release Date: 08/09/2008
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.
The title of this beloved Japanese classic refers to the 24 eyes of the students of an elementary class on the remote island of Shodoshima. Set in the late 1920s, the students' calm and traditional way of life is changed when a shockingly modern young teacher from Tokyo arrives. The woman, who wears a suit like a man and rides a bike to work, is slowly accepted and eventually loved by her students. Both their bright futures and the new ideas of the teacher are shattered by the impending war as well as by a rising nationalism that stifles individual growth and transforms personal ambition into unflinching devotion to the state.
Special Features
- Digitally remastered (New, restored high-definition digital transfer)
- Interview(s) (New video interview with Japanese cinema historian and critic Tadao Sato about the film and its director)
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- A booklet featuring a new essay be renowned film scholar Audie Bock and excerpts from an interview with Kinoshita)
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