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Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki [DVD] = When a woman ascends the stairs
Title:
Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki [DVD] = When a woman ascends the stairs
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[DVD] = Toho Kabushiki Kaisha. ; seisaku Kikushima Ryūzo ; kyakuhon Kikushima Ryūzo ; kantoku Naruse Mikio.
Publication Information:
[New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2007.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
ISBN:
9781934121276
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General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 1960.
"New, restored high-definition digital transfer"--Container insert.
Accompanying booklet features essays by Phillip Lopate, Catherine Russell, Audie Bock, and Hideko Takamine.
Special features: optional audio commentary by Donald Richie; interview with Tatsuya Nakadai; theatrical trailer; new and improved English subtitle translation.
Abstract:
A young widow with family obligations, Keiko is the madam of an upstairs bar in the exclusive Ginza district of Tokyo in 1960. As she approaches 30, she realizes that her life is at a crossroads: she must either go into business and open her own bar or marry.
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Title (vernacular script):
女が !_, !F9i$r!0&i$k!C- [videorecording] / 東'; 9!DS!=9'CZ!Na ; 製作菊!; y!_0!0$ ; 脚本菊!; y!_0!0$ ; 監督成瀬巳喜男.
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Title on container and disc label: When a woman ascends the stairs
Credits:
Directed by Mikio Naruse ; produced and written by Ryuzo Kikushima ; cinematography, Masao Tamai ; original music, Toshirô Mayuzumi ; editing, Eiji Ooi.
Performer:
Takamine Hideko, Mori Masayuki, Dan Reiko.
Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Kato, Ganjiro Nakamura, Eitaro Ozawa, Keiko Awaji, Kyu Sazanka, Jun Tatara, Yu Fujiki, Masao Oda. Ken Mitsuda, Chikako Hosokawa, Sadako Sawamura, Noriko Sengoku, Kin Sugai.
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen, enhanced for 16x9 widescreen TVs (2.35:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital mono, Dolby Digital Perspecta 3.0 stereo.
Language:
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.