When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1960-01-15
  • User Rating: 8/10 from 106 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 51min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: TOHO
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Mikio Naruse
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From 106 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • Hideko Takamine

    as Keiko Yashiro

  • Masayuki Mori

    as Nobuhiko Fujisaki

  • Reiko Dan

    as Junko Inchihashi

  • Tatsuya Nakadai

    as Kenichi Komatsu

  • Daisuke Katō

    as Matsukichi Sekine

  • Ganjirō Nakamura II

    as Goda

  • Eitarō Ozawa

    as Minobe

  • Keiko Awaji

    as Yuri

  • Chieko Nakakita

    as Tomoko

  • Jun Tatara

    as Goldfish

  • Yū Fujiki

    as Matsui

  • Masao Oda

    as Yoshizo Yashiro

  • Ken Mitsuda

    as Sonoda

  • Chikako Hosokawa

    as Matsuko

  • Sadako Sawamura

    as Toshiko

  • Kyū Sazanka

    as Bar Owner

  • Noriko Sengoku

    as Fortune Teller

  • Kin Sugai

    as Katsuko

  • Toshiko Higuchi

    as Hostess

  • Noriko Honma

    as Mineko

  • Natsuko Kahara

    as Fujie

  • Machiko Kitagawa

    as Kiyomi

  • Takuzō Kumagai

    as Bar Customer

  • Fumie Noguchi

    as Natsuko

  • Yutaka Sada

    as Yoshikawa

  • Akira Sera

    as Mizutani

  • Toki Shiozawa

    as Hostess

  • Ayumi Sonoda

    as Mitsuko

  • Yoshifumi Tajima

    as Electric Company Director

  • Akira Tani

    as Real Estate Agent

  • Mitsuo Tsuda

    as Bar Customer

  • Haruko Tōgō

    as Shizuko

  • Keiko Yanagawa

    as Yukiko

  • Michino Yokoyama

    as Miyuki

  • Akiko Wakabayashi

    as Hostess

  • Rumi Konishi

    as

  • Kyoko Mori

    as
Camera Masao Tamai Director of Photography
Directing Mikio Naruse Director
Directing Sakae Hirosawa Assistant Director
Sound Toshirō Mayuzumi Original Music Composer
Sound Hisashi Shimonaga Sound
Production Ryūzō Kikushima Producer
Editing Eiji Ooi Editor
Sound Masao Fujiyoshi Sound
Art Satoru Chûko Production Design
Costume & Make-Up Hideko Takamine Costume Design
Writing Ryūzō Kikushima Screenplay

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