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