Twenty-Four Eyes - Criterion Collection

Twenty-Four Eyes - Criterion Collection
by Keisuke Kinoshita

Twenty-Four Eyes - Criterion Collection
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Actor: Ch Ryu, Chieko Naniwa, Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura, Toshiko Kobayashi
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 156 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion Collection

Movie Reviews of Twenty-Four Eyes - Criterion Collection

Movie Review: Twenty-Four Eyes-best film ever made-
Summary: 5 Stars

I have seen this movie several years ago and I begged Criterion Collection to sell this. Much to my suprise it is getting sold!! This is the most remarkable anti-war movie ever made about 12 school children who are doing what school children do-go to school, grow up, and family life. After the children play a prank on the teacher, which causes her to injure her ankle-I would say about 45 minutes later-you will NOT stop crying. You see-it is what happens when ordinary every day life is turned upside down due to war. This movie was taylor made to make you cry. The school children-when they want to visit their beloved teacher-all run away from home and try to walk to her house, which is many miles away. Along they way they start crying because they are hungry. I know it doesn't sound touching-but it is. Everything in this film is touching, highly emotional-it isn't just a movie, but an EXPERIENCE you will never forget. Yes, I have the movie, but I'm ordering this gem simply because Criterion Collection re digitalized it. TRUST ME THIS MOVIE IS AN EMORMOUS EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE-and it WILL make you cry I don't care how hard-as-nails you are!! IF I COULD GIVE IT A HUNDRED OR THOUSAND STARS, I WOULD!!! This movie is not just a good movie-it is a total and complete emotional experience, and is by far the most touching I have ever seen.
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Summary of Twenty-Four Eyes - Criterion Collection

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.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:New, restored high-definition digital transfer, New video interview with Japanese cinema historian and critic Tadao Sato about the film and its director, New and improved English subtitle translation.
PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay be renowned film scholar Audie Bock and excerpts from an interview with Kinoshita
Sentimental yet clear-eyed, Keisuke Kinoshita's Twenty-Four Eyes tracks the lives of 12 students through the perspective of one teacher. When Hisako Oishi (Hideko Takamine, a favorite of Kinoshita and Mikio Naruse) arrives in Shodoshima in 1928, the island's townspeople take umbrage at her modern suit and "shiny new bike," but Oishi's charm and dedication wins them over in the end. About her charges, she tells her mother, "I don't want those adorable eyes to ever lose their sparkle." Though Oishi means "big stone," the first-graders--five boys and seven girls--call her Miss Pebble due to her petite stature. As the years pass, some of the students leave school to work, while the now-married instructor encourages the boys to consider non-military options. Though she isn't a "Red," Mrs. Oishi subscribes to pacifism and free thought. Similarly, Twenty-Four Eyes doesn't advance a political agenda, but rather a humanist one. As Audie Bock (Japanese Film Directors) notes, Kinoshita placed a high value on "innocence, purity, and beauty," and even after two decades of hardship, his heroine never loses faith in the essential goodness of people.

Though Sakae Tsuboi's 1952 novel inspired a 1987 remake, Kinoshita's film stands as the definitive adaptation. A classic in its native country, this 1954 feature shares the same timeless values as All Quiet on the Western Front and Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Extras include an interview with Tadao Sato (Currents in Japanese Cinema), two trailers, and a booklet with commentary from the director and an essay by Bock. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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