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When A Woman Ascends The StairTakamine, HidekoWhen A Woman Ascends The StairTakamine, HidekoClrNr/Criterion CollectionDVD-STANDARD
UPC: 715515022521Release Date: 2/13/2007
LIST PRICE: $39.95 (you save $2.96)
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.
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