Twenty-Four Eyes

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 first class of first grade students and follows her through 1946.
~~ Adapted from the novel "Nijushi no Hitomi" by Sakae Tsuboi.