Trapped in a male-dominated system and burdened by financial necessity, Keiko's plight captures the dead-end decadence of the red-light district and the price tag that comes with it.
She comes across at times as self-righteous, at other times as hard. She incessantly lobbies her wealthiest customers to support her bar proposal with resolve. There are no bravura 360-degree camera movements, but there are subtle little tracking shots of Keiko walking through Tokyo, with or without company; and when Keiko goes up the stairs to her bar, the camera delicately ascends with her for just two seconds.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs. Director: Mikio Naruse.
She is an independent, petty bourgeois woman, with a feminist fervor for self-preservation in response to setbacks symptomatic to Post-War Japanese society.
Sign in to manage your newsletter preferences. Naruse adapted literature, including Nobel Laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Sound of the Mountain (Yama no oto, 1954) and six stories by Hayashi Fumiko, known for her depictions of women who persevere in the face of hardship, including Lightning (Inazuma, 1952), Late Chrysanthemum (Bangiku, 1954), and Floating Clouds (Ukigumo, 1955).3 When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, however, is based on an original script by Kikushima Ryu-zo- who also wrote for Kurosawa Akira.
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is centered on the character of Keiko, played by the striking Hideko Takamine who also appeared in Floating Clouds.
CriterionCollection. 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. The film implies that Keiko and her peers chose to be hostesses because of the glamorous image and potential for higher salaries than other occupations. Hideko Takamine plays Mama-san, one of Tokyo's bar-hostesses: an ambiguous, burdensome job with elements of landlady, geisha and prostitute.
When a Woman Ascends a Stairs is a story about Keiko (aka Mama), a bar hostess/madame, who has reached an age where she must either buy her own bar or get married because her looks are beginning to fade. Richie, One Hundred Years of Japanese Film, p. 127. Thanks! When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Cert PG) Peter Bradshaw @PeterBradshaw1. See Russell, ‘From Women’s Writing to Women’s Films in 1950s Japan’. Played by the glamorous Takamine Hideko (1924– 2010), Keiko is older and wiser than her peers and is most desired by male customers. Get info about new releases, essays and interviews on the Current, Top 10 lists, and sales.
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