TWENTY FOUR EYES DVD

Movie Description:
Keisuke Kinoshita`s TWENTY-FOUREYES is an elegant, emotional chronicle of a teacher`s unwavering commitment to her students, herprofession, and her sense of morality. Set in a remote, rural island community and spanning decades of Japanese history, from 1928 throughWorld War II and beyond. Kinoshita`s film takes a simultaneously sober and sentimentallook at the epic themes of aging, war, and death, all fromthe lovingly intimate perspective of Hisako Oishi, as shewatches her pupils grow anddeal with life`s harsh realities. Though little known inthe United States, TWENTY-FOUR EYES is one of Japan`s most popular and enduring classics.