Nijûshi no hitomi

Name: Nijûshi no hitomi
Genre: Drama
Released: 1954-09-15
Duration: 2 h 36 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Hideki Gôko, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa

19541954
SS
2h 36m

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

2.6K

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Drama

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

IMDb RATING

8.0/10

2.6K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Keisuke Kinoshita
Writers
- Keisuke Kinoshita(screenplay)
- Sakae Tsuboi(novel)
Stars

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Awards
- 10 wins & 1 nomination

Photos41

Hideko Takamine in Nijûshi no hitomi (1954)

Yasukuni Toida in Nijûshi no hitomi (1954)

Hideko Takamine and Takahiro Tamura in Nijûshi no hitomi (1954)

Takahiro Tamura and Yumeji Tsukioka in Nijûshi no hitomi (1954)

Toshiko Kobayashi, Toyoko Shinohara, and Hideko Takamine in Nijûshi no hitomi (1954)

Naoji Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, and Toshiyuki Yashiro in Nijûshi no hitomi (1954)

Hideko Takamine and Toshiyuki Yashiro in Nijûshi no hitomi (1954)

Trivia
According to Japanese film critic and historian Tadao Sato, in casting this film about a schoolteacher and her relationships with her pupils over many years, director Keisuke Kinoshita very cleverly chose pairs of look-alike siblings to portray the students. So for those scenes set in later years, Kinoshita simply substituted the older siblings for the younger ones, so that the schoolchildren appeared to "grow" before the audience's eyes.

Connections
Referenced in Hakuchû no tôrima (1966)

Soundtracks
Annie Laurie

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Review

Featured review

10/10

If you like Japanese horror movies...

Whenever I tell someone about a Japanese movie called "24 Eyes", everyone asks me if it's a horror movie, because of the title and because of the recent boom of Japanese horror movie Hollywood remakes.

I always tell them that yes, it is a horror movie. It is a movie about a woman who is dissed by an entire town because she dared to ride in a bicycle. A movie about people who actually believe that fishing is more important than music. A movie about little children who prefer to die in a war than being poor like their parents.

What else could be more horrorific than all that? Black water dripping from a ceiling? A little girl walking backwards with hair covering her face?

I don't think so.

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