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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older.
1960 · Directed by Mikio Naruse · 111 min · Drama · 10 frames
Tagline
The tree sprouts no matter how strong the wind blows.
Crew
- Screenplay: Ryuzo Kikushima
- Cinematography: Masao Tamai
- Edited by: Eiji Ooi
- Music: Toshirō Mayuzumi
- Production design: Satoru Chūko
- Produced by: Ryuzo Kikushima
Cast
- Hideko Takamine as Keiko Yashiro
- Masayuki Mori as Nobuhiko Fujisaki
- Reiko Dan as Junko Inchihashi
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Kenichi Komatsu
- Daisuke Katō as Matsukichi Sekine
- Ganjirō Nakamura II as Goda
- Eitarō Ozawa as Minobe
- Keiko Awaji as Yuri
- Chieko Nakakita as Tomoko
- Jun Tatara as Goldfish
Production
- Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Studios: TOHO
- Themes: alcohol, widow, money, tokyo, japan, japanese woman, hostess, 1950s, bar, job, shōwa era (1926-89)
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