Naruse

So far I've caught three of the four films shown so far in the Mikio Naruse retrospective. Of the ones I've seen, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is my favorite. It stars Hideko Takamine as a the chief hostess in a Ginza nightclub, c. 1960. It's kind of a bizarre cross between Douglas Sirk (thematically) and Billy Wilder (stylistically). I hope to write a review.