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Nijushi no hitomi (1954)
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15 September 1954 (Japan)
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Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it...
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Won Golden Globe.
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Another postwar japanese gem
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Hideki Goko | ... | Isokichi Okada in lower class | |
| Hideko Takamine | ... | Hisako Oishi | |
| Yukio Watanabe | ... | Takeichi Takeshita in lower class | |
| Makoto Miyagawa | ... | Kichiji Tokuda in lower class | |
| Takero Terashita | ... | Tadashi Morioka in lower class | |
| Kunio Sato | ... | Nita Aizawa in lower class | |
| Hiroko Ishii | ... | Masuno Kagawa in lower class | |
| Yasuko Koike | ... | Misako Nishiguchi in lower class | |
| Setsuko Kusano | ... | Matsue Kawamoto in lower class | |
| Kaoko Kase | ... | Sanae Yamaishi in lower class | |
| Yumiko Tanabe | ... | Kotsuru Kabe in lower class | |
| Ikuko Kambara | ... | Fujiko Kinoshita in lower class | |
| Hiroko Uehara | ... | Kotoe Katagiri in lower class | |
| Hitobumi Goko | ... | Isokichi Okada in upper class | |
| Shirô Watanabe | ... | Takeichi Takeshita in upper class |
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Twenty-Four Eyes
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154 min | USA:116 min
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Referenced in Hakuchu no torima (1966)
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Auld Lang Syne
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Compared to a film like "Pigs And Battleships", or even "I Live In Fear"; Kinoshita's film is a middlebrow, mainstream, even sentimental take on the Japan's war years and it's aftermath.
Still, the film is graceful and touching, with what Pauline Kael called "concealed art." Kinoshita's approach seems to be to take potently maudlin situations, and film them from an objective distance; with as direct and simple emotion as possible.
This may short change the great Takamine a bit; we seem to be an hour into the film before the great actress receives a close up. Still, her performaces gains power as the film goes on.
Though politics are kept in the background, as perhaps they had to in a Japanese film of this nature; but there is an anger lurking in the backgroud; an inditement of a culture that would waste the strength of it's woman and worse; reduce it's men to cannon fodder. Was it something in Japanese life; rather than just it's military, that led to it's disasters? Even the country's great filmmakers seem hesitant to speculate. In any event, another strong film of interest to all those who have fallen under the spell of great Japanese film.