When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Directed by Mikio Naruse
Not Rated
1960    1h 51mDrama
8.0100%93%
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and she is continually in debt. The life of a bar hostess is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it.

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Cast of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

  • Hideko TakamineKeiko Yashiro
  • Masayuki MoriNobuhiko Fujisaki
  • Reiko DanJunko Inchihashi
  • Tatsuya NakadaiKenichi Komatsu
  • Daisuke KatōMatsukichi Sekine
  • Ganjirō Nakamura IIGoda
  • Eitarō OzawaMinobe
  • Keiko AwajiYuri
  • Chieko NakakitaTomoko
  • Jun TataraGoldfish
  • Yū FujikiMatsui
  • Masao OdaYoshizo Yashiro
  • Ken MitsudaSonoda
  • Chikako HosokawaMatsuko
  • Sadako SawamuraToshiko
  • Kyū SazankaBar Owner
  • Noriko SengokuFortune Teller
  • Kin SugaiKatsuko
  • Toshiko HiguchiHostess
  • Noriko HonmaMineko
  • Natsuko KaharaFujie
  • Machiko KitagawaKiyomi
  • Takuzô KumagayaBar Customer
  • Fumie NoguchiNatsuko
  • Yutaka SadaYoshikawa
  • Akira SeraMizutani
  • Toki ShiozawaHostess
  • Ayumi SonodaMitsuko
  • Yoshibumi TajimaElectric Company Director
  • Akira TaniReal Estate Agent
  • Mitsuo TsudaBar Customer
  • Haruko TōgōShizuko
  • Keiko YanagawaYukiko
  • Michino YokoyamaMiyuki
  • Akiko WakabayashiHostess
  • Rumi Konishi
  • Kōko Mori
  • Mikio NaruseDirector
  • Ryūzō KikushimaWriter / Producer

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