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.
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
Noboru Nakaya
as Haruhiko Itatsu
Yūnosuke Itō
as Gorô Shirasaka
Jun Tatara
as Tamura
Masao Oda
as Fumiko's father
Takeshi Katō
as Uenoyama
Natsuko Kahara
Chōko Iida
Machiko Kitagawa
Chieko Nakakita
Kin Sugai
Hisaya Ito
Yutaka Nakayama
Akira Nagoya
Michiko Kawa
Tatsuo Endō
Kazuko Inano
Masako Yagi
Michiko Hayashi
Fumiko Umeka
Asao Uchida
Toshiaki Nishizawa
Shin Kishida
Daigo Kusano
Isao Hashizume
