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Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki = When a woman ascends the stairs / Toho Company, Ltd. ; produced and written by Ryuzo Kikushima ; directed by Mikio Naruse.
LIBRA DVD 008 904 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 377.
- Criterion collection ; 377
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Widows--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
- Widows.
- Bars (Drinking establishments)--Employees--Drama.
- Bars (Drinking establishments).
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Remarriage.
- Bars (Drinking establishments)--Employees.
- Japan--Tokyo.
- Remarriage--Drama.
- Ginza (Tokyo, Japan)--Drama.
- Ginza (Tokyo, Japan).
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm).
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- When a woman ascends the stairs
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital mono, Dolby Digital 3.0 stereo; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A young widow with family obligations, Keiko is the madam of an upstairs bar in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo in 1960. As she approaches 30, she realizes that her life is at a crossroads: she must either go into business and open her own bar or marry.
- Participant:
- Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Masao Tamai ; original music, Toshirô Mayuzumi ; editing, Eiji Ooi.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.
- Aspect ratio 2.35:1.
- Credits from English subtitles on screen.
- "New, restored high-definition digital transfer"--Container insert.
- Accompanying booklet features essays by Phillip Lopate, Catherine Russell, Audie Bock, and Hideko Takamine.
- Special features: Audio commentary by Donald Richie; interview with Tatsuya Nakadai; theatrical trailer; new and improved English subtitle translation.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1934121274
- 9781934121276
- OCLC:
- 85428520
- Publisher Number:
- 715515022521
- CC1684D Criterion Collection
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