When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki
The tree sprouts no matter how strong the wind blows.
This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and she is continually in debt. The life of a bar hostess is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Hideko Takamine
Keiko Yashiro
Tatsuya Nakadai
Kenichi Komatsu, the manager
Masayuki Mori
Nobuhiko Fujisaki
Reiko Dan
Junko Inchihashi
Daisuke Katō
Matsukichi Sekine
Ganjirô Nakamura
Goda
Eitarō Ozawa
Minobe
Keiko Awaji
Yuri
Kyū Sazanka
Bar owner
Jun Tatara
Goldfish
Toshirō Mayuzumi
Composer
👤
Masao Tamai
Cinematographer
