A Wanderer's Notebook

A Wanderer's Notebook

124 mins | Drama | Sept. 29, 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.

A Wanderer's Notebook

124 mins | Drama | Sept. 29, 1962

A Wanderer's Notebook
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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.
Original title 放浪記
Directors Mitsuyoshi Tsujimura, Masazumi Kawanishi, Mikio Naruse
Writers Fumiko Hayashi, Sumie Tanaka, Kazuo Kikuta, Toshirō Ide

Cast

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