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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.
Original Release
01/15/1960
US Release
06/25/1963
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Hideko Takamine | Keiko Yashiro |
Masayuki Mori | Nobuhiko Fujisaki |
Reiko Dan | Junko Inchihashi |
Tatsuya Nakadai | Kenichi Komatsu, the manager |
Daisuke Katô | Matsukichi Sekine |
Ganjiro Nakamura | Goda |
Eitarô Ozawa | Minobe |
Keiko Awaji | Yuri |
Chieko Nakakita | Tomoko |
Jun Tatara | Goldfish |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Hideko Takamine | Keiko Yashiro |
Masayuki Mori | Nobuhiko Fujisaki |
Reiko Dan | Junko Inchihashi |
Tatsuya Nakadai | Kenichi Komatsu, the manager |
Daisuke Katô | Matsukichi Sekine |
Ganjiro Nakamura | Goda |
Eitarô Ozawa | Minobe |
Keiko Awaji | Yuri |
Chieko Nakakita | Tomoko |
Jun Tatara | Goldfish |
Yû Fujiki | Matsui (Miyuki's husband) |
Masao Oda | Yoshizo Yashiro (Keiko's brother) |
Ken Mitsuda | Sonoda |
Chikako Hosokawa | Matsuko |
Sadako Sawamura | Toshiko (Yuri's mother) |
Toshiko Higuchi | Hostess |
Noriko Honma | Mineko (Sekine's wife) |
Natsuko Kahara | Fujie (Keiko's mother) |
Shigeo Katô | |
Machiko Kitagawa |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Ryûzô Kikushima | Producer |