This is the heart-warming story of a teacher who pours all of her love and creativity into educating a dozen children who are living on a small island and are destined for tragedy during the difficult wartime years.

DVD Features:

Keep Case
2-Disc Set
Full Frame 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 1.0 - Japanese
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Interview - 1. Keisuke Kinoshita, Director
2. Tadao Sato, Cinema Historian
Trailers - Theatrical Teasers
Additional Product:
Booklet - 1. Essay by Audie Bock, Film Scholar
2. 1955 Interview Excerpts With Kinoshita

Distributor Notes: 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.

Source: Image Entertainment

Teinosuke Kinugasa: Director/Actor/Screenwriter
Chishu Ryu: Japanese Actor/With Ozu
Hideko Takamine: Actor/"..Woman Ascends"

Keisuke Kinoshita: Director/Screenwriter

4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] powerful humanist study, detailing the effects of history on a generation of Japanese men."
"TWENTY FOUR EYES is as sensitive to the poverty of its characters as it is to the rise of militarism....Kinoshita's vision coheres around Takamine Hideko's powerful performance as the teacher."