When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

Action, Drama
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akiko Wakabayashi
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.—PastaQueen
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