Directed by:
Mikio NaruseScreenplay:
Ryûzô KikushimaCast:
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katō, Eitarô Ozawa, 野口ふみえ, 淡路恵子, 織田政雄, 中村鴈治郎, 山茶花究, Michiyo Yokoyama, Natsuko Kahara (more)VOD (1)
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour a delicate, devastating study of Keiko (the heartbreaking Takamine Hideko), 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. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
![Hideko Takamine](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272423_1ff948.jpg)
Hideko Takamine
Japan
Best movies:
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961)
Immortal Love (1961)
![Masayuki Mori](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/273/273994_3853b1.jpg)
Masayuki Mori
Japan
Best movies:
Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)
Asu o tsukuru hitobito (1946)
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
Reiko Dan
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
Sanjuro (1962)
Fort Graveyard (1965)
![Tatsuya Nakadai](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/272/272374_48e342.jpg)
Tatsuya Nakadai
Japan
Best movies:
Zatoichi at the Fire Festival (1970)
The Human Bullet (1968)
Seven Samurai (1954)
![Daisuke Katō](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/886/157886513_8bb3e1.jpg)
Daisuke Katō
Japan
Best movies:
Japan's Longest Day (1967)
Seven Samurai (1954)
Le Garde du corps (1961)
Eitarô Ozawa
Japan
Best movies:
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
Steel Edge of Revenge (1969) - narrator
野口ふみえ
Japan
Best movies:
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Hachiko monogatari (1987)
![淡路恵子](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/365/161365968_12b3a4.jpg)
淡路恵子
Japan
Best movies:
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
47 Ronin (1962)
Stray Dog (1949)
織田政雄
Japan
Best movies:
Bushido, Samurai Saga (1963)
High and Low (1963)
Ballad of Narayama (1958)
中村鴈治郎
Japan
Best movies:
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
The End of Summer (1961)
Kwaidan (1964)
山茶花究
Japan
Best movies:
High and Low (1963)
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)
Le Garde du corps (1961)
Michiyo Yokoyama
Japan
Best movies:
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
The Makioka Sisters (1983)
The Funeral (1984)
Natsuko Kahara
Japan
Best movies:
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Tenchu! (1969)
Sadako Sawamura
Japan
Best movies:
A Fugitive from the Past (1965)
Late Autumn (1960)
Good Morning (1959)
Noriko Honma
Japan
Best movies:
Red Beard (1965)
Le Garde du corps (1961)
Rashomon (1950)
Akira Tani
Japan
Best movies:
Le Garde du corps (1961)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
The Rickshaw Man (1958)
Shigeo Katô
Japan
Best movies:
Seven Samurai (1954)
Living (1952)
Fort Graveyard (1965)