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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

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Reviews Counted: 13

Fresh: 13

Rotten:0

Average Rating: 8.2/10

Runtime: 1 hr 51 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Synopsis: A stunning drama about a ginza bar hostess as she approaches the perilous age of 30.

Starring: Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan

Starring: Hideko Takamine, Tatsuya Nakadai, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Daisuke Kato, Ganjiro Nakamura, Eitarô Ozawa, Keiko Awaji

Director: Mikio Naruse

Director: Mikio Naruse
Screenwriter: Ryuzo Kikushima
Composer: Toshio Mayazumi

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Feb 6, 2007

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DVD Features:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital Mono 1.0 - Japanese
  • Subtitles - English - Optional

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - Donald Richie
  • Interview - Tatsuya Nakadai - Star
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It's also elegantly shot and scored; all that's missing is a touch of humour.

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06/29/07
Anthony Quinn
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A heartbreaker.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
06/29/07
Total Film
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Sprint, don't walk, up those BFI steps to see it.

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06/29/07
Tom Robey
Daily Telegraph
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The new retrospective of Mikio Naruse at London's BFI Southbank will do much to restore the reputation of a neglected Japanese director, and this 1960 film is a heartbreaking study, to be compared with Mizoguchi's Life of Oharu.

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06/29/07
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Shot in luminous black and white cinemascope, this is an exquisitely understated study of the plight of a young woman in an unforgiving society.

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06/29/07
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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The money-grubbing realities of late 1950s Tokyo make for riveting viewing in Naruse's naturalistic classic. These are no ordinary memories of a geisha.

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06/29/07
Jamie Russell
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Patience will be rewarded.

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06/29/07
Anna Smith
BBC
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A new classic.

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06/29/07
Trevor Johnston
Time Out
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Lustrously photographed in monochrome by Masai Tamai, this is essentially a Tokyo twist on Nights of Cabiria (1957), with Mikio Naruse and Hideko Takamine replacing Fellina and Masina's kooky optimism with a fatalistic humanism.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
06/29/07
David Parkinson
Empire Magazine
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Even a casual viewing of When a Woman Ascends the Stairs shows what a gifted humanist Naruse was.

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04/26/07
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Naruse creates an affecting scenario of modern Japanese society and the pitfalls a woman in such a patriarchal society must face.

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07/17/06
Dennis Schwartz
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The final close-up—featuring Keiko smiling in lieu of tears—might be frozen, framed, and subtitled "Lady Sings the Blues."

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