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When a woman ascends the stairs
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Japan--Tokyo--Drama.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Feature films
- Documentary films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 111 minutes) digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2014
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- 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
- Notes:
- Title from title frames
- Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1960
- OCLC:
- 1294528091
- Publisher Number:
- 1113271 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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