Twenty Four Eyes (Criterion Collection)

Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita (Osaka Story) & starring Hideko Taka mine (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs). Chronicle of a teacher & her pupils in a small inland sea village beginning in 1928 & carrying through 20 years of their joys & sorrows. The village's tranquility is broken by war, afterwards the teacher & her surviving students reminisce about her husband & students who died in the war. Original Japanese dialogue with English subtitles. 155 minutes. All Code/NTSC. Letter Box. Dolby Digital Stereo. B/W. Panorama. 2003.