A Wanderer's Notebook

A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1962-09-29
  • User Rating: 7.2/10 from 11 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 4min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Mikio Naruse
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From 11 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • 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
Directing Mikio Naruse Director
Writing Sumie Tanaka Screenplay
Writing Toshirō Ide Screenplay
Art Satoru Chûko 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
Crew Kôichi Nakagawa Sound Recordist
Directing Mitsuyoshi Tsujimura Assistant Director
Sound Yūji Koseki Original Music Composer
Writing Kazuo Kikuta Theatre Play

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