Nijuushi no Hitomi

Tsuboi Sakae

Tsuboi Sakae, born Iwai Sakae (岩井栄) in Sakate, Shozu, Kagawa, Japan, was a Japanese children's literature novelist and poet. She was the fifth daughter of Iwai Tokichi (岩井藤吉), a soy sauce barrel craftsman. After her family’s business failed, she worked as a babysitter while attending…

Ichihara Etsuko

Ichihara Etsuko was a Japanese actress from Chiba City, Chiba Prefecture. After graduating from high school, she entered Waseda University's Second Faculty of Literature, and although she had decided to get a job at Fuji Bank, her thoughts on theater were hard to forget. She joined the Haiyuza Theater…

Yamamoto Sen

Shima Kaori

Kaori Shima was born on July 19, 1946 in Osaka, Japan. She is an actress, known for Kids War (1999), Kids War 3 (2001) and Kids War 5 (2003).

Nakakita Chieko

Nakakita Chieko (1926-2005) was a Japanese actress. A character actress who never quite got her due, despite roles in numerous high-profile movies from the 1940s onward. Although a vigorous participant in Toho's labor disputes of that early period, like so many others she never really left, in part…

Nijushi no Hitomi

8.0

It is 1928 on Shodoshima in the Seto Inland Sea. Oishi Hisako, who has just graduated from a girls' school, arrives as a new teacher at the branch school located at the island’s cape. All twelve first-year elementary…

Nijushi no Hitomi

4.0

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. (Source: AsianWiki)…

24 no Hitomi

7.5

Hitomi is a teacher with a tendency to lie, who thus causes trouble to those around her.

24 no Hitomi

~~ Adapted from the novel "Nijushi no Hitomi" by Sakae Tsuboi.

Twenty-Four Eyes

7.9

The movie follows the career of a schoolteacher named Hisako Oishi in Shodoshima during the rise and fall of Japanese ultra-nationalism in the beginning of the Showa period. The narrative begins in 1928 with the teacher's…

Twenty Four Eyes

7.0

Hisako Ohishi begins work as a teacher for an elementary school, located on a small remote island. She has 12 students, all with distinct personalities. Hisako Ohishi and her 12 students get closer and closer, but…

Twenty-Four Eyes

7.1

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils. (Source: TMDB) ~~ Adapted from the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes" (二十四の瞳) by Sakae…

Kuroki Hitomi

Hitomi Kuroki is a Japanese actress. Before entering the television business, she was one of the top musumeyaku (those who play the female role) in the Takarazuka Revue, an all-female theatre troupe. In 1997, she won many awards for her outstanding performance in "Lost Paradise". Apart from her acting…

Kinoshita Keisuke

Kinoshita Keisuke was a Japanese film director. Kinoshita was highly prolific, turning out some 42 films in the first 23 years of his career. For this, Kinoshita explained that he "can’t help it. Ideas for films have always just popped into my head like scraps of paper into a wastebasket. Although…

Hirayama Hiroyuki

Hiroyuki Hirayama is a Japanese actor who has appeared in over 40 films, but is mostly known for his memorable performances in S: Saigo no Keikan - Dakkan: Recovery of Our Future (2015), Joker: Yurusarezaru sôsakan (2010), and Retribution (2006). (Source: WeliWelo@MyDramaList)

Ishikura Saburo

Saburo Ishikura is a Japanese actor that has acted in several movies directed by Beat Takeshi. He has also appeared in a few of Takeshi's recent films which include Zatoichi as Boss Ogi and Asakusa Kid. He has also made an appearance in Gaki No Tsukai Batsu, "Newspaper Agency" as a man in a golf bag.

Aoi Yu

Aoi Yu is a Japanese actress and model. She made her film debut in Shunji Iwai's 2001 film "All About Lily Chou-Chou". She has won numerous awards for her performances on screen, including the prestigious Japan Academy Prize and Kinema Junpo Awards for best-supporting actress in 2007 for "Hula Girls"…