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