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A Wanderer's Notebook
1962, Sep 29
2h 4m
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.
Directed by
Mikio Naruse
Kazuko Inano
Masao Oda
Fumiko's father
Noboru Nakaya
Haruhiko Itatsu
Michiko Kawa
Jun Tatara
Tamura
Hideko Takamine
Fumiko Hayashi
Takeshi Katō
Uenoyama
Akira Takarada
Fukuya
Asao Uchida
Tatsuo Endō
Kinuyo Tanaka
Kishi, Fumiko's mother
Daisuke Katō
Nobuo Sadaoka
Shin Kishida
Chōko Iida
Keiju Kobayashi
Fujiyama
Yūnosuke Itō
Gorô Shirasaka
Natsuko Kahara
Akira Nagoya
Kin Sugai
Masako Yagi
Mitsuko Kusabue
Kyôko Hinatsu
Chieko Nakakita
Michiko Hayashi
Machiko Kitagawa
Hisaya Ito
Isao Hashizume
Yutaka Nakayama
Daigo Kusano
Toshiaki Nishizawa
Fumiko Umeka
Tomoko Fumino
Yasuko Murano
Yurika Benisono
Toshiko Yabuki
Mineko Yorozuyo
Shigeki Ishida
Rumi Konishi
Masae Yoshikawa
Chisato Aoki
Akiko Mori
Yoshiko Uno
Yachiyo Kirishima
Hiroyuki Sugi
Katsuhiro Oida
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