When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
$25.00
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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Description
Plot:
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?
Genres: Drama
Original Title: 女が階段を上る時
Spoken Language(s): 日本語
Other MPAA Film Ratings: M12
Rating: 8.1
Vote Count: 21
Status: Released
Release Date: January 15, 1960
Primary Year: 1960
IMDB Link: tt0054144
Runtime: 111min | 1h 51min
Production Countries: Japan
Production Companies: Toho Company
Alternative Titles: Cuando una mujer sube la escalera, Onna ga Kaidan wo Agaru Toki
Videos: Trailer 1
- Hideko Takamine – Keiko Yashiro
- Tatsuya Nakadai – Kenichi Komatsu, the manager
- Masayuki Mori – Nobuhiko Fujisaki
- Reiko Dan – Junko Inchihashi
- Daisuke Katô – Matsukichi Sekine
- Ganjirô Nakamura – Goda
- Eitarô Ozawa – Minobe
- Keiko Awaji – Yuri
- Chieko Nakakita – Tomoko
- Jun Tatara –
- English – US
- Portuguese – PT
- Spanish – ES
- French – FR
- Italian – IT
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