When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki
1960, Film, 111 min, Drama, Japanese, Japan, MoviePedia score 74
The tree sprouts no matter how strong the wind blows.
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.
Directed by Mikio Naruse
Cast
- Hideko Takamine as Keiko Yashiro
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Kenichi Komatsu, the manager
- Masayuki Mori as Nobuhiko Fujisaki
- Reiko Dan as Junko Inchihashi
- Daisuke Katō as Matsukichi Sekine
- Ganjirô Nakamura as Goda
- Eitarō Ozawa as Minobe
- Keiko Awaji as Yuri
- Kyū Sazanka as Bar owner
- Jun Tatara as Goldfish
More like this
- Street of Shame (1956)
- Sakuran (2006)
- The End of Summer (1961)
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962)
- Repast (1951)
- High and Low (1963)
- A Geisha (1953)
- The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
- Pigs and Battleships (1961)
- Marty Supreme (2025)
- The Woman of Rumour (1954)
- Osaka Elegy (1936)