When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

女が階段を上る時

1960·111'

Mikio Naruse

Drama

Japanese

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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

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