Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Egyptian Theatre, Los Angeles
### **ABOUT THE FILM:** *In Japanese with English subtitles.* WHEN A WOMAN ASCENDS THE STAIRS might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo’s very modern postwar Ginza district, who entertains businessmen after work. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. FORMAT: 35mm DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Japan