When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

女が階段を上る時

by Mikio Naruse1h511960Japan

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A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Production Compagny : Toho Company
- Distributor : Carlotta Films
- Sound Recorder : Hisashi Shimonaga, Masao Fujiyoshi
- Original Music : Toshirô Mayuzumi
- Producer : Ryuzo Kikushima
- Scenario : Ryuzo Kikushima
- Director : Mikio Naruse
- Photo Director : Masao Tamai
- Set Decoration : Satoru Chûko
- Costume Design : Hideko Takamine
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1960
- French release date : 12 août 1995
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Black and White
- Language : Japanese

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

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Technical details

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By the same director

Floating Clouds

Repast

Yearning

From the same year

Lola

Cruel Story of Youth

Chronicle of a Summer

With the same cast

Daisuke Katō

An Autumn Afternoon

Floating Clouds

Rashōmon

Ganjiro Nakamura

The End of Summer

Floating Weeds

Tatsuya Nakadai

High and Low

Ran

Hitokiri

Hideko Takamine

Floating Clouds

Yearning

A Wanderer's Notebook

Masayuki Mori

Floating Clouds

Rashōmon

Tales of the Pale and Silvery Moon after the Rain

Eitaro Ozawa

The Crucified Lovers

The Human Condition - Part 1

A Wife Confesses

Keiko Awaji

The Bridges at Toko-Ri

This film is recommended by

Christoph Hochhäusler

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Park Chan-wook

Paul Schrader

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"L’âge d’or des studios japonais"