When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s finest hour, a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo’s very modern postwar Ginza district, who entertains businessmen after work. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS shows the largely unsung yet widely beloved master Naruse at his most socially exacting and profoundly emotional.
Starring Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katō, Ganjirô Nakamura II, Eitarō Ozawa, Keiko Awaji, Chieko Nakakita, Jun Tatara
Watch "When a Woman Ascends the Stairs" on Criterion Channel released in 1960. It's a drama and romance movie, and has a rating of 8.1 out of 10 from Imdb which is very high for this kind of movie.
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