When a Woman Ascends the Stairs [Criterion Collection]
Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Optional dolby digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original perspecta simulated stereo effects
- Audio commentary by Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie, author of A Hundred Years of Japanese Film
- New video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Plus: A booklet featuring essays by Phillip Lopate, Catherine Russell, Audi Bock, and Hideko Takamine
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- Disc #1 -- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs: The Criterion Collection
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- Mizu Shobai/Economy of Storytelling
- The Naruse Family/A Tough Director
- Method
- Patronage
- Women's Options/Money
- Attitudes Toward Marraige/Not a Woman's Picture
- Reiko Dan
- Syntax
- Tradition/Autobiography
- Autobiography(Cont.)/Suicide
- A Pictaresque Story
- Financial Brutality
- Changing Perceptions of Poverty
- The Ginza
- Sets
- Style/Ganjiro Nakamura
- Milieu/Hideko Takamine
- Voice-Over
- Daisuke Kato/Heroines
- Love/Parallels
- Melodrama
- Mono no Aware/Chasteness
- A Kind of Happiness
- Emotionality
- "The Right Thing"
- Tatsuya Nakadai
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- Disc #1 -- When a Woman Ascends the Stairs: The Criterion Collection
- 1. Mama [9:19]
- 2. Lilac Bar [3:01]
- 3. Yuri's Place [4:18]
- 4. A New Job [4:27]
- 5. Night's End [4:53]
- 6. A Good Husband [8:10]
- 7. Not Like Mama [1:55]
- 8. Potential Patron [3:07]
- 9. Bar For Sale [4:08]
- 10. Yuri's Plan [3:03]
- 11. Subscription Book [3:34]
- 12. "Bound to Fail" [4:22]
- 13. Fortune-Teller [1:55]
- 14. Mama's Breakdown [4:06]
- 15. The Proprietress Visits [3:13]
- 16. Junko House-Sits [2:59]
- 17. Family Burdens [8:53]
- 18. Back to Work [2:36]
- 19. Marriage Proposal/A Brother's Needs [6:48]
- 20. Changes [2:42]
- 21. Mrs. Sekine [3:01]
- 22. Drunk [5:20]
- 23. No Regrets [6:38]
- 24. Komatsu [4:35]
- 25. A Departure and a Return [4:02]
- 1. Color Bars [:00]
- 1. Color Bars [:00]
Year released: 1960
MPAA Rating: [ ]
Format: Black & White/Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
Length: 111
Sound: DD3.0
Subtitles: Eng
Studio: Criterion