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A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
Directed by Mikio Naruse
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Overview
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.
Length 124 minutes
Actors
Hideko Takamine | Akira Takarada | Daisuke Katô | Keiju Kobayashi | Kinuyo Tanaka | Mitsuko Kusabue | Noboru Nakaya | Yūnosuke Itō | Jun Tatara | Masao Oda | Takeshi Katô | Tomoko Fumino | Natsuko Kahara | Chôko Iida | Machiko Kitagawa | Yurika Benisono | Chieko Nakakita | Toshiko Yabuki | Kin Sugai | Hisaya Ito | Mineko Yorozuyo | Shigeki Ishida | Yutaka Nakayama | Akira Nagoya | Rumi Konishi | Michiko Kawa | Masae Yoshikawa | Tatsuo Endô | Chisato Aoki | Kazuko Inano | Masako Yagi | Michiko Hayashi | Akiko Mori | Yoshiko Uno | Yachiyo Kirishima | Fumiko Umeka | Asao Uchida | Toshiaki Nishizawa | Hiroyuki Sugi | Katsuhiro Oida | Shin Kishida | Daigo Kusano | Isao Hashizume