When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (DVD)
APPROX. 111 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 1960 - MPA RATING: NR
DVD Specifications
| Release date: | Feb 20, 2007 |
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| Studio: | Criterion/Voyager |
| Year: | 1960 |
| Video: |
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Anamorphic - Enhanced for Widescreen TVs. |
| Audio: |
Japanese: Dolby Digital 1.0 Japanese: Dolby Digital 3.0 |
| Genre: | Drama, Drama |
| Subtitles: | English |
Special Features
- Audio commentary by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie, author of A Hundred Years Of Japanese Film
- New video interview with Tatsuya Nakadai
- Theatrical Trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- A booklet featuring essays by Phillip Lopate, Catherine Russell, Audie Bock, and Hideko Takamine
Synopsis
When A Woman Ascends The Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour - a delicate, devastating study of Keiko (the heartbreaking Takamine Hideko), 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. When A Woman Ascends The Stairs shows the largely unsung yet widely beloved master Naruse at his most socially exacting and profoundly emotional.Cast & Crew
Criterion/Voyager
presents
Takamine HidekoTatsuya Nakadai
"When a Woman Ascends the Stairs"
Written byRyuzo Kikushimadirected byMikio Naruse
Production Year: 1960
"When a Woman Ascends the Stairs"
Written byRyuzo Kikushimadirected byMikio Naruse
Production Year: 1960
