A Wanderer's Notebook

A Wanderer's Notebook

1962 ja 124 minutes

Rating: 7.2

Plot

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.

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Cast

Hideko Takamine

Hideko Takamine

Fumiko Hayashi

Akira Takarada

Akira Takarada

Fukuya

Daisuke Katō

Daisuke Katō

Nobuo Sadaoka

Keiju Kobayashi

Keiju Kobayashi

Fujiyama

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kishi, Fumiko's mother

Mitsuko Kusabue

Mitsuko Kusabue

Kyôko Hinatsu

Noboru Nakaya

Noboru Nakaya

Haruhiko Itatsu

Yūnosuke Itō

Yūnosuke Itō

Gorô Shirasaka

Jun Tatara

Jun Tatara

Tamura

Masao Oda

Masao Oda

Fumiko's father

Takeshi Katō

Takeshi Katō

Uenoyama

Tomoko Fumino

Tomoko Fumino

Yasuko Murano

Natsuko Kahara

Natsuko Kahara

Chōko Iida

Chōko Iida

Machiko Kitagawa

Machiko Kitagawa

Yurika Benisono

Yurika Benisono

Chieko Nakakita

Chieko Nakakita

Toshiko Yabuki

Toshiko Yabuki

Kin Sugai

Kin Sugai

Hisaya Itō

Hisaya Itō

Mineko Yorozuyo

Mineko Yorozuyo

Shigeki Ishida

Shigeki Ishida

Yutaka Nakayama

Yutaka Nakayama

Akira Nagoya

Akira Nagoya

Rumi Konishi

Rumi Konishi

Michiko Kawa

Michiko Kawa

Masae Yoshikawa

Masae Yoshikawa

Tatsuo Endō

Tatsuo Endō

Chisato Aoki

Chisato Aoki

Kazuko Inano

Kazuko Inano

Masako Yagi

Masako Yagi

Michiko Hayashi

Michiko Hayashi

Akiko Mori

Akiko Mori

Yoshiko Uno

Yoshiko Uno

Yachiyo Kirishima

Yachiyo Kirishima

Fumiko Umeka

Fumiko Umeka

Asao Uchida

Asao Uchida

Toshiaki Nishizawa

Toshiaki Nishizawa

Hiroyuki Sugi

Hiroyuki Sugi

Katsuhiro Oida

Katsuhiro Oida

Shin Kishida

Shin Kishida

Daigo Kusano

Daigo Kusano

Isao Hashizume

Isao Hashizume

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