Drama · Japan · 1962 · 2h 4m

A Wanderer's Notebook

放浪記

A Wanderer's Notebook poster
Director
Mikio Naruse
Cast
Hideko Takamine as Fumiko Hayashi Akira Takarada as Fukuya Daisuke Katō as Nobuo Sadaoka Keiju Kobayashi as Fujiyama Kinuyo Tanaka as Kishi, Fumiko's Mother Mitsuko Kusabue as Kyôko Hinatsu
Crew
Jun Yasumoto — Director of Photography Eiji Ooi — Editor Yūji Koseki — Original Music Composer Toshiro Ide — Screenplay Sumie Tanaka — Screenplay Sanezumi Fujimoto — Producer
Synopsis

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-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.

Trailer A Wanderer's Notebook — Official Trailer
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Mood & Themes
waitressbased on novel or bookpoetbiographytokyo, japanwriternovelistpeddler1920staisho period
Key Collaborators
Mikio Naruse Director Jun Yasumoto Director of Photography Eiji Ooi Editor Yūji Koseki Original Music Composer Toshiro Ide Screenplay Sumie Tanaka Screenplay Sanezumi Fujimoto Producer Mikio Naruse Producer Tadahiro Teramoto Producer Satoru Chūko Production Design
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