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Screenplay. 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.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs: Directed by Mikio Naruse. With Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai. A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo's very modern postwar Ginza district, who entertains businessmen after work.
- Keiko Yashiro
Mikio Naruse's When A Woman Ascends The Stairs is a piercing study of the throes of women amidst post-war Japan. Depressingly cyclical, thronged with parallels and foreshadowing, the film examines the world these women live in: male-dominated and male-dependent.
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs. Directed by Mikio Naruse • 1960 • Japan. Starring Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan. WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in ...
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