Twenty-Four Eyes(二十四の瞳)
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Japan · 1954
2h 36m
Director Keisuke Kinoshita
Starring Hideko Takamine, Hideki Gôko, Itsuo Watanabe, Makoto Miyagawa
Genre Drama
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Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi struggles to imbue her students with a positive view of the world and their place in it, despite the fact that she knows full well that most of them will die in the war.
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