When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1963)

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (also know as Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki) full movie is released on Jun 25, 1963. Watch When a Woman Ascends the Stairs online - the Japanese Drama movie from Japan , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $51,775. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is directed by Mikio Naruse and created by Ryûzô Kikushima with Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori.

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.