When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Directed by Mikio NaruseNot Rated
1963 1h 51m[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)8.0100%93%8.0
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.
