Onna ga kaidan wo agaru toki 1960

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.

Cast:

Daisuke Katō
Matsukichi Sekine 

Masayuki Mori
Nobuhiko Fujisaki 

Tatsuya Nakadai
Kenichi Komatsu 

Akiko Wakabayashi
Hostess 

Eitarō Ozawa
Minobe 

Ken Mitsuda
Sonoda