A Wanderer's Notebook

7.2

Japan

Drama

124 min

1962

Hideko Takamine Hisaya Ito Yutaka Nakayama Akira Nagoya Michiko Kawa Tatsuo Endō Kazuko Inano Masako Yagi Michiko Hayashi Fumiko Umeka Asao Uchida Toshiaki Nishizawa Shin Kishida Daigo Kusano Kin Sugai Chieko Nakakita Akira Takarada Daisuke Katō Keiju Kobayashi Kinuyo Tanaka Mitsuko Kusabue Noboru Nakaya Yūnosuke Itō Jun Tatara Masao Oda Takeshi Katō Natsuko Kahara Chōko Iida Machiko Kitagawa Isao Hashizume

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.