A Woman Going Up the Stairs

This film (drama)Also known as女が階段を上る時，is aJapanProducerwomen sex，At1960Released in year 。The dialogue language isJapanese，Current Douban rating9.1(For reference only)。

Mama-san Keiko (played by Hideko Takamine) is the owner of a Club in Ginza, turning thirty and facing a crossroads in her life, hesitating between remarriage and her career choices. Having lost her husband early, Keiko's marriage has never flourished, and her business is gradually declining, leading her to focus her life on taking care of the younger hostesses, Junko and Yukiko. The club's young manager (played by Tatsuya Nakadai) has a crush on Keiko but is reluctant to confess due to his career priorities, choosing instead to diminish his feelings for her through a physical relationship with Yukiko. However, his uncontrollable emotions eventually give him the courage to confess—will the emotionally drained Keiko accept it? The post-war Japanese public's complicated sentiments are laid bare under the calm long takes of master Mikio Naruse; this film is marked by a heavy realism, threading through with a woman's monologue, rich in cultural atmosphere.