When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Original title: 女が階段を上る時
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is a 1960 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Mikio Naruse, with a running time of 1h 51m. It stars Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori and Reiko Dan.
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.
Cast
- 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