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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Onna Ga Kaidan Wo Agaru Toki

1960

NR (Not Rated)

715515022521

8.0

5,347

Drama | Foreign

Japan | Japanese | Black & White | 01:51

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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.

Cast View all

	Hideko Takamine	Keiko Yashiro
	Masayuki Mori	Nobuhiko Fujisaki
	Reiko Dan	Junko Inchihashi
	Tatsuya Nakadai	Kenichi Komatsu / the manager
	Daisuke Katô	Matsukichi Sekine
	Ganjirô Nakamura	Goda
	Eitarô Ozawa	Minobe
	Keiko Awaji	Yuri
	Chieko Nakakita	Tomoko
	Jun Tatara	Goldfish
	Yu Fujiki	Matsui (Miyuki's husband)
	Masao Oda	Yoshizo Yashiro (Keiko's brother)
	Ken Mitsuda	Sonoda
	Chikako Hosokawa	Matsuko
	Sadako Sawamura	Toshiko (Yuri's mother)
	Toshiko Higuchi	Hostess
	Noriko Honma	Mineko (Sekine's wife)
	Natsuko Kahara	Fujie (Keiko's mother)
	Shigeo Kato
	Machiko Kitagawa	Kiyomi
	Rumi Konishi
	Takuzô Kumagai
	Akio Kusama	Bar guest
	Kôko Mori
	Fuyuki Nakagami

Crew View all

Director	Mikio Naruse
Writer	Ryuzo Kikushima
Producer	Ryuzo Kikushima
Musician	Toshirô Mayuzumi
Photography	Masao Tamai

Trailer

Edition details

Edition	Criterion
Packaging	Keep Case
Nr Discs	1
Screen Ratios	Anamorphic Widescreen (2.35:1)
Audio Tracks	Dolby Digital Mono [Japanese] JAPANESE: Dolby Digital 3.0. SUB [English]
Subtitles	English
Distributor	Criterion
Layers	Single side, Dual layer
Edition Release Date	Feb 20, 2007
Regions	Region 1