A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
Overview
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.
Cast
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
Natsuko Kahara
Chōko Iida
Machiko Kitagawa
Chieko Nakakita
Kin Sugai
Hisaya Ito
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