Twenty-Four Eyes

Twenty-Four Eyes
Twenty-Four Eyes
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Keisuke Kinoshita
Screenplay by	Keisuke Kinoshita
Based on	Twenty-Four Eyes; by Sakae Tsuboi
Produced by	Ryotaro Kuwata
Starring	Hideko Takamine
Cinematography	Hiroshi Kusuda
Edited by	Yoshi Sugihara
Music by	Chuji Kinoshita
Distributed by	Shochiku
Release date	15 September 1954 (Japan);
Running time	154 minutes
Language	Japanese

Twenty-Four Eyes (二十四の瞳, Nijū-shi no hitomi) is a 1954 Japanese drama film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, based on the 1952 novel of the same name by Sakae Tsuboi.^[1] The film stars Hideko Takamine as a young schoolteacher who lives during the rise and fall of Japanese nationalism in the early Shōwa period, and has been noted for its anti-war theme.^[2]

Twenty-Four Eyes was released in Japan by Shochiku on 15 September 1954, where it received generally positive reviews and was a commercial success.^[3] It received numerous awards, including the Blue Ribbon Award, the Mainichi Film Award and the Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film of 1954, and the Golden Globe Award.^[4]^[5]^[6]

^ Kittaka, Louise George (11 March 2017). "'Twenty-four Eyes': A quiet commentary on the inhumanity of war". The Japan Times. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
^ Bock, Audie (18 August 2008). "Twenty-Four Eyes: Growing Pains". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
^ West, Philip; Levine, Steven I.; Hiltz, Jackie, eds. (1998). America's Wars in Asia: A Cultural Approach to History and Memory. M. E. Sharpe. p. 61. ISBN 0-7656-0236-9.
^ "1954 Blue Ribbon Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
^ "1954 Mainichi Film Awards" (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 January 2021.
^ "Twenty-Four Eyes". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved 31 July 2023.