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
Isao Hashizume
Masao Oda
as Fumiko's father
Kin Sugai
Yutaka Nakayama
Natsuko Kahara
Akira Takarada
as Fukuya
Keiju Kobayashi
as Fujiyama
Mitsuko Kusabue
as Kyôko Hinatsu
Yūnosuke Itō
as Gorô Shirasaka
Jun Tatara
as Tamura
Tatsuo Endō
Shin Kishida
Kinuyo Tanaka
as Kishi, Fumiko's mother
Chieko Nakakita
Michiko Kawa
Hideko Takamine
as Fumiko Hayashi
Takeshi Katō
as Uenoyama
Chōko Iida
Kazuko Inano
Fumiko Umeka
Hisaya Ito
Masako Yagi
Asao Uchida
Daigo Kusano
Akira Nagoya
Michiko Hayashi
Toshiaki Nishizawa
Daisuke Katō
as Nobuo Sadaoka
Noboru Nakaya
as Haruhiko Itatsu
Machiko Kitagawa
