TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikio Naruse
AU  - Mikio Naruse
AU  - Ryûzô Kikushima
AU  - Hideko Takamine
AU  - Tatsuya Nakadai
AU  - Masayuki Mori
TI  - Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
AV  - PN1997 .O563 1960
PY  - 1960///
CY  - Japan
PB  - Toho Company, Janus Films
N1  - Special features include:
- Audio Commentary by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
- Video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai
N2  - From case cover:
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, entertaining 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 beloved master Naruse at his most socially exacting and profoundly emotional
ER  -