Best Pirce 😍 Twenty-Four Eyes DVD – Kaoko Kase, Yasuko Koike 😀

Classic Japanese drama written and directed by Keisuke Kinoshita. Spanning a 20-year period, the film follows young schoolteacher Hisaki Oishi (Hideko Takamine) and the ongoing relationship she has with her first class of 12 children. At first, the locals are suspicious of Hisaki and her headstrong city ways, but before long the whole community has fallen under her spell. At the same time though, the impending war threatens to change their lives forever.

Keisuke Kinoshita’s Twenty-Four Eyes – which beat Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai as Kinema Junpo’s Best Film of 1954 and won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1955 – is one of Japan’s most beloved films. In 1999 it was picked by Japanese critics as one of the ten best Japanese films of all time. Both a huge commercial and critical success this deeply affecting anti-war film has according to the critic Sato Tadao “”wrung more tears out of Japanese audiences than