When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Movie • 1960 • Drama
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Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for her demanding mother and brother, and knowing she's growing older. She's of an age when she must choose: to seek marriage (difficult given her tarnished occupation), to be a kept woman, or to borrow money to buy a bar of her own. Each route has dangers, including investors demanding a return on their loans. Keiko has a quiet dignity that attracts men, but are they what they seem? Does she actually have choices?
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It is mentioned that someone throws up blood at one point, but it is never graphically depicted.
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Two characters die by suicide, one does so after saying she would actually just fake a suicide
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There are several comments made about gaining and losing weight, used both in general banter, and as an insult. Not full on fat jokes though.
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It's not said exactly like that, but one character says she will kill herself, but then says she actually wont and will just fake it to get her creditors off her back. She ends up actually committing suicide.
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Many regulars at the bars deal with alcohol abuse.
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In a spa, an elecro-therapy wand is used on a woman's face. It is used in a cosmetology context, not in a psychiatric context.
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A woman overdoses on sleeping pills off-screen. It is unclear whether it was intentional or not.
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One of the characters had polio
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As a part of the main characters' backstory, her husband died in a car accident. This is discussed but not shown on screen.
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As a part of the main characters' backstory, her husband was hit by a vehicle. This is discussed but not shown on screen.
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One of the guys the main character falls in love with lies about who he is to her saying he's single and wants to marry her when in fact he is married, has children, and is a womanizer who lures women in with marriage proposals.
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The main female character is raped rather abruptly off-screen. She is also grabbed without consent at a few additional points.
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