A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-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.
Director:
Mikio Naruse
Writers:
Sumie Tanaka, Toshiro Ide.
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Hideko Takamine as Fumiko Hayashi |
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Akira Takarada as Fukuya |
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Daisuke Katō as Nobuo Sadaoka |
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Keiju Kobayashi as Fujiyama |
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Kinuyo Tanaka as Kishi, Fumiko's Mother |
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Mitsuko Kusabue as Kyôko Hinatsu |
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Noboru Nakaya as Haruhiko Itatsu |
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Yūnosuke Itō as Gorô Shirasaka |
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Jun Tatara as Tamura |
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Masao Oda as Fumiko's Father |
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Takeshi Katō as Uenoyama |
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Tomoko Fumino as Yasuko Murano |
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Natsuko Kahara as |
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Chōko Iida as |
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Machiko Kitagawa as |
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Yurika Benisono as |
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Chieko Nakakita as |
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Toshiko Yabuki as |
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Kin Sugai as |
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Hisaya Ito as |
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Mineko Yorozuyo as |
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Shigeki Ishida as |
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Yutaka Nakayama as |
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Akira Nagoya as |
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Rumi Konishi as |
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Michiko Kawa as |
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Masae Yoshikawa as |
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Tatsuo Endō as |
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Chisato Aoki as |
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Kazuko Inano as |
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Masako Yagi as |
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Michiko Hayashi as |
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Akiko Mori as |
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Yoshiko Uno as |
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Yachiyo Kirishima as |
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Fumiko Umeka as |
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Asao Uchida as |
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Toshiaki Nishizawa as |
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Hiroyuki Sugi as |
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Katsuhiro Oida as |
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Shin Kishida as |
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Daigo Kusano as |
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Isao Hashizume as |
| Directing | Mikio Naruse | Director |
| Writing | Sumie Tanaka | Screenplay |
| Writing | Toshiro Ide | Screenplay |
| Art | Satoru Chūko | Production Design |
| Production | Toshiya Okihara | Production Manager |
| Writing | Fumiko Hayashi | Author |
| Production | Tadahiro Teramoto | Producer |
| Camera | Jun Yasumoto | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Eiji Ooi | Editor |
| Production | Mikio Naruse | Producer |
| Sound | Hisashi Shimonaga | Sound Effects Editor |
| Lighting | Chōshirō Ishii | Gaffer |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Producer |
| Directing | Masazumi Kawanishi | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Mitsuyoshi Tsujimura | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Yūji Koseki | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Kazuo Kikuta | Theatre Play |
| Sound | Kôichi Nakagawa | Sound Recordist |