When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Drama
★ 8.0/1019601h 51m
Director: Mikio Naruse
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.
Runtime
1h 51m
Language
Japanese
Released
Jan 15, 1960
Runtime
1h 51m
Language
Japanese
Released
Jan 15, 1960
Cast
Hideko Takamine
Keiko Yashiro
Masayuki Mori
Nobuhiko Fujisaki
Reiko Dan
Junko Inchihashi
Tatsuya Nakadai
Kenichi Komatsu
Daisuke Katō
Matsukichi Sekine
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Goda
Eitarō Ozawa
Minobe
Keiko Awaji
Yuri
Chieko Nakakita
Tomoko
Jun Tatara
Goldfish
Yū Fujiki
Matsui
Masao Oda
Yoshizo Yashiro
Ken Mitsuda
Ken Mitsuda
Sonoda
Chikako Hosokawa
Matsuko
Sadako Sawamura
Toshiko
Kyū Sazanka
Bar Owner
Noriko Sengoku
Fortune Teller
Kin Sugai
Katsuko
Toshiko Higuchi
Toshiko Higuchi
Hostess
Noriko Honma
Mineko
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