This is the story of Mama, a.k.a. Keiko, a middle-aged bar hostess who must choose to either get married or buy a bar of her own. Her family hounds her for money, her customers for her attention, and she is continually in debt. The life of a bar hostess is examined as well as the way in which the system traps and sometimes kills those in it. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 8.1/10 | |
Released: | June 25, 1963 | |
Runtime: | 111 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
Countries: | Japan | |
Companies: | Toho Toho Company Toho Co. | |
Cast: | Hideko Takamine Tatsuya Nakadai Masayuki Mori | |
Crew: | Ryûzô Kikushima Mikio Naruse | |
prism : very confusing episode.