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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Most recently watched by sleestakk
Overview
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.
Length 111 minutes
Actors
Hideko Takamine | Masayuki Mori | Reiko Dan | Tatsuya Nakadai | Daisuke Katô | Ganjirô Nakamura | Eitarô Ozawa | Keiko Awaji | Chieko Nakakita | Jun Tatara | Yû Fujiki | Masao Oda | Ken Mitsuda | Chikako Hosokawa | Sadako Sawamura | Kyû Sazanka | Noriko Sengoku | Kin Sugai | Toshiko Higuchi | Noriko Honma | Natsuko Kahara | Machiko Kitagawa | Takuzô Kumagai | Fumie Noguchi | Yutaka Sada | Akira Sera | Toki Shiozawa | Ayumi Sonoda | Yoshifumi Tajima | Akira Tani | Mitsuo Tsuda | Haruko Tôgô | Keiko Yanagawa | Michiyo Yokoyama | Akiko Wakabayashi | Rumi Konishi | Kyoko Mori