COMING SOON
Sun Apr 26
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles | Series co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles and The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities | ‘Mikio Naruse: An American Cinematheque Retrospective’
- DIRECTOR
- Mikio Naruse
SYNOPSIS
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.
- LANGUAGE
- In Japanese with English subtitles
