Twenty-Four Eyes
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| 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 |
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Running time | 154 minutes |
| Language | Japanese |
Twenty-Four Eyes (Japanese: 二十四の瞳, Hepburn: 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. 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.
Twenty-Four Eyes was released in Japan by Shochiku on 15 September 1954, where it received generally positive reviews and was a commercial success. 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.