When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Name: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Uploaded: 1960-01-15T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 111 min
Description: 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.

8.00
January 1960
111 min

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.

Type:
MOVIE
Country:
JP
Genres:
Drama
Release:
January 1960
Production:
TOHO
Cast:
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katō, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Eitarō Ozawa, Keiko Awaji, Chieko Nakakita, Jun Tatara, Yū Fujiki, Masao Oda, Ken Mitsuda, Chikako Hosokawa, Sadako Sawamura, Kyū Sazanka, Noriko Sengoku, Kin Sugai, Toshiko Higuchi, Noriko Honma, Natsuko Kahara, Machiko Kitagawa, Takuzō Kumagai, Fumie Noguchi, Yutaka Sada, Akira Sera, Toki Shiozawa, Ayumi Sonoda, Yoshibumi Tajima, Akira Tani, Mitsuo Tsuda, Haruko Tōgō, Keiko Yanagawa, Michino Yokoyama, Akiko Wakabayashi, Rumi Konishi, Kyoko Mori
Tags:
widow, tokyo, japan, hostess, 1950s, shōwa era (1926-89)

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

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