A Wanderer's Notebook

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Hideko Takamine

Fumiko Hayashi

Age : 86 | Popularity : 6%

Akira Takarada

Fukuya

Age : 89 | Popularity : 6%

Daisuke Katō

Nobuo Sadaoka

Age : 64 | Popularity : 8%

Keiju Kobayashi

Fujiyama

Age : 86 | Popularity : 4%

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kishi, Fumiko's mother

Age : 67 | Popularity : 6%

Mitsuko Kusabue

Kyôko Hinatsu

Age : 90 | Popularity : 5%

Noboru Nakaya

Haruhiko Itatsu

Age : 77 | Popularity : 7%

Yūnosuke Itō

Gorô Shirasaka

Age : 60 | Popularity : 11%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Sanezumi Fujimoto Mikio Naruse Tadahiro Teramoto
	Production Manager	Toshiya Okihara
Writing	Screenplay	Toshirō Ide Sumie Tanaka
	Theatre Play	Kazuo Kikuta
	Author	Fumiko Hayashi
Directing	Director	Mikio Naruse
	Assistant Director	Masazumi Kawanishi Mitsuyoshi Tsujimura
Camera	Director of Photography	Jun Yasumoto
Art	Production Design	Satoru Chûko
Sound	Original Music Composer	Yûji Koseki
	Sound Effects Editor	Hisashi Shimonaga
Editing	Editor	Eiji Ooi
Lighting	Gaffer	Chôshirô Ishii
Crew	Sound Recordist	Kôichi Nakagawa
Department	Role	Name

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