Twenty-Four Eyes
(1954)
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Twenty-Four Eyes
(1954)
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Hideki Gôko | ... |
Isokichi Okada - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Itsuo Watanabe | ... |
Takeichi Takeshita - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Makoto Miyagawa | ... |
Kichiji Tokuda - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Takeo Terashita | ... |
Tadashi Morioka - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Kunio Satô | ... |
Nita Aizawa - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Hiroko Ishii | ... |
Masuno Kagawa - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Yasuko Koike | ... |
Misako Nishiguchi - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Setsuko Kusano | ... |
Matsue Kawamoto - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Kaoko Kase | ... |
Sanae Yamaishi - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Yumiko Tanabe | ... |
Kotsuru Kabe - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Ikuko Kanbara | ... |
Fujiko Kinoshita - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Hiroko Uehara | ... |
Kotoe Katagiri - Bunkyôjô Jidai
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Hitoshi Gôko | ... |
Isokichi Okada - Honkô Jidai
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Shirô Watanabe | ... |
Takeichi Takeshita - Honkô Jidai
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Jun'ichi Miyagawa | ... |
Kichiji Tokuda - Honkô Jidai
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Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, despite the fact that she knows full well that most of them will die in the war. Written by Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
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.