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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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It's also elegantly shot and scored; all that's missing is a touch of humour.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
06/29/07
Anthony Quinn
Independent

A heartbreaker.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
06/29/07
Total Film

Sprint, don't walk, up those BFI steps to see it.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
06/29/07
Tom Robey
Daily Telegraph

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.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
06/29/07
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

Shot in luminous black and white cinemascope, this is an exquisitely understated study of the plight of a young woman in an unforgiving society.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
06/29/07
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]

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
Channel 4 Film

Patience will be rewarded.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
06/29/07
Anna Smith
BBC

A new classic.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/29/07
Trevor Johnston
Time Out

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

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
Combustible Celluloid

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
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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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