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