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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.

Genere: Dramma

Cast: 高峰秀子, 宝田明, 加東大介, Keiju Kobayashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, 草笛光子, 仲谷昇, 伊藤雄之助, 多々良純, 織田政雄, 加藤武, 文野朋子, 賀原夏子