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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

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1960
1h 51m
Japanese
Drama
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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. She's of an age when she must choose: to seek marriage (difficult given her tarnished occupation), to be a kept woman, or to borrow money to buy a bar of her own. Each route has dangers, including investors demanding a return on their loans. Keiko has a quiet dignity that attracts men, but are they what they seem? Does she actually have choices?
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8.1
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95

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Cast

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Hideko Takamine
Keiko Yashiro
Masayuki Mori
Nobuhiko Fujisaki
Reiko Dan
Junko Inchihashi
Tatsuya Nakadai
Kenichi Komatsu
Daisuke Kat
Matsukichi Sekine
Ganjir Nakamura II
Eitar Ozawa
Keiko Awaji
Chieko Nakakita
Jun Tatara
Goldfish
Y Fujiki
Masao Oda
Yoshizo Yashiro
Ken Mitsuda
Chikako Hosokawa
Sadako Sawamura
Ky Sazanka
Bar Owner
Noriko Sengoku
Fortune Teller
Kin Sugai
Katsuko
Toshiko Higuchi
Noriko Honma
Natsuko Kahara
Machiko Kitagawa
Takuz Kumagai
Bar Customer
Fumie Noguchi
Yutaka Sada
Yoshikawa
Directed By: Mikio Naruse
Written By: Ryūzō Kikushima (Screenplay)

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Jay Shuai says...
2 years ago
Man this film is nasty! Love it! Grim atmosphere. Some scenes that make u go ‘oh they really went there?’ but masterful filmmaking. If you like a movie with at least one person to root for, don’t watch this. 8/10
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Jay Shuai says...
2 years ago
Well made but grim. So bleak it’s a hard watch. My mood plummeted watching this.
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Maarten Delfgou says...
3 years ago
The original title of the film is Onna Ga Kaidan Wo Agaru Toki.
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