Twenty-Four Eyes
Twenty-Four Eyes ★★★ Nijushi No Hitomi 1954
Miss Oishi (Takamine), a teacher on a remote Japanese island in the 1920s, attempts to transmit peaceful values to her 12 pupils amidst the clamor of a nation gearing up for war. As she watches them grow up, many of them doomed to an early death, she remains a pillar of quiet strength. In Japanese with English subtitles. 158m/B VHS . JP Hideko Takamine, Chishu Ryu, Toshiko Kobayashi; D: Keisuke Kinoshita.
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