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When A Woman Ascends The Stairs Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1960
Director: Mikio Naruse
Genre: Drama
Cast: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Ganjiro Nakamura, Daisuke Kato, Eitaro Ozawa, Keiko Awaji
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Language: Japanese
Release Date: 2007-02-20
Description

_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.