A Wanderer's Notebook
29/09/1962
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.
Movie Information
Hideko Takamine
as Fumiko Hayashi
Akira Takarada
as Fukuya
Daisuke Katō
as Nobuo Sadaoka
Keiju Kobayashi
as Fujiyama
Kinuyo Tanaka
as Kishi, Fumiko's mother
Mitsuko Kusabue
as Kyôko Hinatsu
Noboru Nakaya
as Haruhiko Itatsu
Yūnosuke Itō
as Gorô Shirasaka
Jun Tatara
as Tamura
Masao Oda
as Fumiko's father
Takeshi Katō
as Uenoyama
Tomoko Fumino
as Yasuko Murano
Natsuko Kahara
as
Chōko Iida
as
Machiko Kitagawa
as
Yurika Benisono
as
Chieko Nakakita
as
Toshiko Yabuki
as
Kin Sugai
as
Hisaya Ito
as
Mineko Yorozuyo
as
Shigeki Ishida
as
Yutaka Nakayama
as
Akira Nagoya
as
Rumi Konishi
as
Michiko Kawa
as
Masae Yoshikawa
as
Tatsuo Endō
as
Chisato Aoki
as
Kazuko Inano
as
Masako Yagi
as
Michiko Hayashi
as
Akiko Mori
as
Yoshiko Uno
as
Yachiyo Kirishima
as
Fumiko Umeka
as
Asao Uchida
as
Toshiaki Nishizawa
as
Hiroyuki Sugi
as
Katsuhiro Oida
as
Shin Kishida
as
Daigo Kusano
as
Isao Hashizume
as
