"When a woman climbs the stairs" is a work released in 1960. It was when Japan began to transform from post-war reconstruction to a period of high growth, and at that time, "bars" were about to reach its heyday. The title "Woman" played by Hideko Takamine is a 30-year-old widow who lost her husband in a traffic accident, and is hired at a bar in Ginza to play Madame.
The main stage is the bar street that goes a little back from the main street, so there are not many scenes such as the main street of Ginza, but there is a scene where Hideko Takamine and Tatsuya Nakadai cross Miyoshi Bridge. Is the bridge beyond Miyoshi Bridge Shintomi Bridge? The Tsukiji River still flows under the bridge.
The heroine's parents' home played by Hideko Takamine is Tsukuda Island. In the scene where a sick "woman" recuperates at his parents' home, the houses of Tsukuda, the scenery of Tsukuda's ferryboat, and the Torii of Sumiyoshi-jinja Shirine appear. Chikako Hosokawa, a bar manager who visited the parents' home on Tsukuda Island, said, "I've come to Tsukuda Island for the first time, but there's something like a remnant of Tokyo in the past."
Tsukuda's handover also appears in director Yoshio Naruse's "Dream every night" (1933) (can be seen on You Tube). The heroine Sumiko Kurishima, who works in a cafe with a child, lives on Tsukuda Island, so you can see the scenery of Tsukuda Island before the war.
According to Shiro Toyoda's "What a Star under" (1962), Tsukuda's ferry boat just before the abolition and the Tsukiji River just before the landfill frequently appear, but I do not see it. It shouldn't be a DVD player. Unless the copyright has expired and has been released on You Tube, it's difficult to watch old Japanese movies.
