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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

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(No longer in theaters)
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  • Director: Mikio Naruse   Cast: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô
  • Running Time: 111 minutes
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Genre

Drama

Producer

Ryuzo Kikushima

Distributor

Ryuzo Kikushima

Release Date

Jun 25, 1963

Release Notes

Limited

Review

The Japanese director was a giant in his home country but is known in the U.S. primarily for this film, an account of a widowed barmaid’s attempts to carve out a better life for herself. Despite a very direct cinematic style, Naruse’s treatment here is beguilingly poetic, full of natural metaphors and heroic desperation.