When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki)[]
1960, directed by Mikio Naruse
(IMDB Link) IMDB Summary: A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.
- Hideko Takamine - Keiko (Mama) Yashiro
- Masayuki Mori - Nobuhiko Fujisaki
- Reiko Dan - Junko Inchihashi
- Tatsuya Nakadai - Kenichi Komatsu, the manager
- Daisuke Katô - Matsukichi Sekine
- Ganjirô Nakamura - Goda
- Eitarô Ozawa - Minobe
- Keiko Awaji - Yuri
- Chieko Nakakita - Tomoko
- Jun Tatara - Minor Role
- Yû Fujiki - Minor Role
- Masao Oda - Minor Role
- Ken Mitsuda - Minor Role
- Chikako Hosokawa - Minor Role
- Sadako Sawamura - Minor Role
- Toshiko Higuchi - Minor Role
- Noriko Honma - Minor Role
- Natsuko Kahara - Minor Role
- Machiko Kitagawa - Minor Role
- Rumi Konishi - Minor Role
- Takuzô Kumagai - Minor Role
- Kyôko Mori - Minor Role
- Fuyuki Nakagami - Minor Role
- Fumie Noguchi - Minor Role
- Yutaka Sada - Minor Role
- Kyû Sazanka - Minor Role
- Noriko Sengoku - Minor Role
- Akira Sera - Minor Role
- Toki Shiozawa - Minor Role
- Ayumi Sonoda - Minor Role
- Kin Sugai - Minor Role
- Takaji Suzuki - Minor Role
- Yoshifumi Tajima - Minor Role
- Akira Tani - Minor Role
- Mitsuo Tsuda - Minor Role
- Haruko Tôgô - Minor Role
- Eiko Wakabayashi - Minor Role
- Keiko Yanagawa - Minor Role
- Michino Yokoyama - Minor Role