Case Number 14310   Criterion // 1954 // 156 Minutes // Not
Rated Reviewed by Judge Dylan Charles (Retired) // August 19th,
2008  The Charge  The color of the sea And the silhouette of the
mountains Remained the same as day followed upon day?  Opening
Statement  Based on a novel by Sakae Tsuboi, Twenty-Four Eyes
takes the road less traveled to show a country in wartime.
Rather than the brutality of the battlefield, the atrocities,
the bloodshed, and the bombs, Twenty-Four Eyes shows the small
effects in the day-to-day lives of the common folk.  Facts of
the Case  Hisako Oishi (Hideko Takamine) is a schoolteacher in a
small rural town in Japan in 1928. For the next eighteen years,
through the beginning and end of World War II, she watches her
twelve students deal with poverty, war, and growing up and does
what she can to help them along.  The Evidence  When boiled down
to its very basic premise, Twenty-Four Eyes sounds like a very
simple movie that can be summed up in two sentences. That's
where the beauty of