When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Movie

Drama

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.

Date: 01/15/1960

Rating: 8.0

Cast: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katō, Ganjirō Nakamura II, Eitarō Ozawa, Keiko Awaji, Chieko Nakakita, Jun Tatara, Yū Fujiki, Masao Oda, Ken Mitsuda, Chikako Hosokawa, Sadako Sawamura, Kyū Sazanka, Noriko Sengoku, Kin Sugai, Toshiko Higuchi, Noriko Honma, Natsuko Kahara, Machiko Kitagawa, Takuzō Kumagai, Fumie Noguchi, Yutaka Sada, Akira Sera, Toki Shiozawa, Ayumi Sonoda, Yoshifumi Tajima, Akira Tani, Mitsuo Tsuda, Haruko Tōgō, Keiko Yanagawa, Michino Yokoyama, Akiko Wakabayashi, Rumi Konishi, Kyoko Mori

Hideko Takamine