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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katō, Keiju Kobayashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Kusabue
Crew: Mikio Naruse (Director), Sumie Tanaka (Screenplay), Toshirō Ide (Screenplay), Kôichi Nakagawa (Sound Recordist), Eiji Ooi (Editor), Toshiya Okihara (Production Manager)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.
Runtime: 124 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Sep 29, 1962
IMDb: 3.8
