Naruse - When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

Filmmaker Mikio Naruse takes a characteristic dour look at life in When A Woman Ascends the Stairs. The central character is a barmaid, who works day and night to avoid being thrown out into the street. She knows that, if she loses her job, the only profession open to her is the World's Oldest. But when the worst happens, the barmaid learns to live with herself while compromising her values. The film's original title was Onna Ga Kaidan O Agaru Toki.



General

Complete name : When.a.woman.ascend.the.stairs.1960.Xvid.Dual.avi

Format : AVI

Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave

Format/Family : RIFF

File size : 1.36 GiB

PlayTime : 1h 51mn

Bit rate : 1735 Kbps

StreamSize : 15.9 MiB

Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.4.1 (build 2178/release)

Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2178/release

IAS1 : Japanese

IAS2 : English

Video #0

Codec : XviD

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Codec/Info : XviD project

Codec profile : Simple Profile/Level 3

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Codec settings/BVOP : No

Codec settings/QPel : No

Codec settings/GMC : 0

Codec settings/Matrix : Default

PlayTime : 1h 51mn

Bit rate : 1450 Kbps

Width : 704 pixels

Height : 304 pixels

Display Aspect ratio : 2.35

Frame rate : 23.976 fps

Resolution : 8 bits

Chroma : 4:2:0

Interlacement : Progressive

Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.280

StreamSize : 1.13 GiB

Audio #1

Codec : AC3

PlayTime : 1h 51mn

Bit rate : 191 Kbps

Bit rate mode : CBR

Channel(s) : 1 channel

Channel positions : C

Sampling rate : 48 KHz

StreamSize : 152 MiB

Audio #2

Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3

Codec profile : Joint stereo

PlayTime : 1h 51mn

Bit rate : 83 Kbps

Bit rate mode : VBR

Channel(s) : 2 channels

Sampling rate : 48 KHz

Resolution : 16 bits

StreamSize : 66.5 MiB

Writing library : LAME3.97

Encoding settings : ABR



IMDB: tt0054144



Japanese audio, English, Spanish and Portuguese subtitles



Posted originally at Karagarga by pernod (Extras stripped). Criterion rip, dual audio (second audio is English commentary).