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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

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Calorie Rating: 156
Released: 1960-01-15
Running Time: 111 Minutes
Studios: TOHO,


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.

Director / Directors

Sakae Hirosawa
Assistant Director


Cast

Hideko Takamine
Character: Keiko Yashiro
Masayuki Mori
Character: Nobuhiko Fujisaki
Reiko Dan
Character: Junko Inchihashi

Tatsuya Nakadai
Character: Kenichi Komatsu
Daisuke Katō
Character: Matsukichi Sekine
Ganjirō Nakamura II
Character: Goda

Eitarō Ozawa
Character: Minobe
Keiko Awaji
Character: Yuri
Chieko Nakakita
Character: Tomoko

Jun Tatara
Character: Goldfish
Yū Fujiki
Character: Matsui
Masao Oda
Character: Yoshizo Yashiro

Ken Mitsuda
Character: Sonoda
Chikako Hosokawa
Character: Matsuko
Sadako Sawamura
Character: Toshiko

Kyū Sazanka
Character: Bar Owner
Noriko Sengoku
Character: Fortune Teller
Kin Sugai
Character: Katsuko

Toshiko Higuchi
Character: Hostess
Noriko Honma
Character: Mineko
Natsuko Kahara
Character: Fujie

Machiko Kitagawa
Character: Kiyomi
Takuzō Kumagai
Character: Bar Customer
Fumie Noguchi
Character: Natsuko

Yutaka Sada
Character: Yoshikawa
Akira Sera
Character: Mizutani
Toki Shiozawa
Character: Hostess

Ayumi Sonoda
Character: Mitsuko
Yoshifumi Tajima
Character: Electric Company Director
Akira Tani
Character: Real Estate Agent

Mitsuo Tsuda
Character: Bar Customer
Haruko Tōgō
Character: Shizuko
Keiko Yanagawa
Character: Yukiko

Michino Yokoyama
Character: Miyuki
Akiko Wakabayashi
Character: Hostess



Production and Crew

Masao Tamai
Director of Photography
Eiji Ooi
Editor
Hideko Takamine
Costume Design

Toshirō Mayuzumi
Original Music Composer

Satoru Chûko
Production Design