A Wanderer's Notebook
放浪記
Release: 1962-09-29
·Runtime: 124m
·★ 7.2
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.
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Cast
Tatsuo Endō
Chōko Iida
Akira Takarada
as Fukuya
Keiju Kobayashi
as Fujiyama
Kinuyo Tanaka
as Kishi, Fumiko's mother
Natsuko Kahara
Takeshi Katō
as Uenoyama
Kazuko Inano
Daigo Kusano
Noboru Nakaya
as Haruhiko Itatsu
Masao Oda
as Fumiko's father
Machiko Kitagawa
Chieko Nakakita
Hisaya Ito
Akira Nagoya
Toshiaki Nishizawa
Jun Tatara
as Tamura
Kin Sugai
Asao Uchida
Isao Hashizume
Yutaka Nakayama
Masako Yagi
Fumiko Umeka
Hideko Takamine
as Fumiko Hayashi
Mitsuko Kusabue
as Kyôko Hinatsu
Michiko Kawa
Shin Kishida
Daisuke Katō
as Nobuo Sadaoka
Yūnosuke Itō
as Gorô Shirasaka
Michiko Hayashi
