2. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Nov 01, 2018
3 minutes
WORDS BY TREVOR JOHNSTON
ILLUSTRATION BY SIMON HAYES
In 1960, as it is today, Tokyo’s upmarket Ginza district was home to myriad swanky bars where well-heeled businessmen would entertain clients and amuse themselves with the elegant hostesses. Typically for the Japanese capital and its stacked-up urban thoroughfares, such dens of iniquity would often be on the first floor or above. Hence the stairs which the female protagonist of Mikio Naruse’s searing melodrama has
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