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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Japanese: 女が階段を上る時, Hepburn: Onna ga kaidan o noboru toki) is a 1960 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse.
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Mar 13, 2021 · A 1960 Japanese drama film by Mikio Naruse, starring Hideko Takamine as a bar hostess in postwar Tokyo. The film explores the challenges and emotions of a woman's independence in a male-dominated society.
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- Shadows of the Dark
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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- Drama
- Mikio Naruse
- 1963-06-25
Aug 12, 2023 · 1960. From Letterboxd: Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she’s a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life’s vicious cycle:...
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A 1960 film by Mikio Naruse about a bar hostess in postwar Tokyo, starring Hideko Takamine and Tatsuya Nakadai. The Criterion Collection offers a new restoration, commentary, interview, trailer, and essays.
- Keiko Yashiro
May 21, 2021 · Nineteen years before Takamine ascended the stairs as Keiko, she was Hideko in Naruse’s Hideko the Bus Conductor, which featured her and other women’s feet in close-up—from the ankles down, dancing in geta sandals—a whopping four times within the span of a fifty-four-minute film. In it, Takamine is a conductress for a failing bus ...
Tokyo, 1960. Pushing thirty, widowed hostess Keiko, a respected mama-san at a bar nestled in the heart of modern, bustling Ginza district, is with her back to the wall.
