Twenty-Four Eyes

Twenty-Four Eyes
Theatrical release poster
Directed byKeisuke Kinoshita
Screenplay byKeisuke Kinoshita
Based onTwenty-Four Eyes
by Sakae Tsuboi
Produced byRyotaro Kuwata
StarringHideko Takamine
CinematographyHiroshi Kusuda
Edited byYoshi Sugihara
Music byChuji Kinoshita
Distributed byShochiku
Release date
  • 15 September 1954 (1954-09-15) (Japan)
Running time
154 minutes
LanguageJapanese
Still from the film

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]

  1. ^ Kittaka, Louise George (11 March 2017). "'Twenty-four Eyes': A quiet commentary on the inhumanity of war". The Japan Times. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  2. ^ Bock, Audie (18 August 2008). "Twenty-Four Eyes: Growing Pains". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "1954 Blue Ribbon Awards" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  5. ^ "1954 Mainichi Film Awards" (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 January 2021.
  6. ^ "Twenty-Four Eyes". Golden Globe Awards. Retrieved 31 July 2023.