Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki (1960)
AKA: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Year: 1960
Directed: Naruse Mikio
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 111 Min.
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English (hardsubs)
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054144/
Synopsis / Plot
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged geisha 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 geisha is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it. Written by PastaQueen
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. She’s of an age when she must choose: to seek marriage (difficult given her tarnished occupation), to be a kept woman, or to borrow money to buy a bar of her own. Each route has dangers, including investors demanding a return on their loans. Keiko has a quiet dignity that attracts men, but are they what they seem? Does she actually have choices?
Criterion: http://www.criterion.com/films/816
Cast:
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
Criterion Synopsis
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.
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