A Wanderer's Notebook
7.6
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.
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Hideko Takamine
Fumiko Hayashi
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Akira Takarada
Fukuya
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Daisuke Katō
Nobuo Sadaoka
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Keiju Kobayashi
Fujiyama
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Sanjuro
Kinuyo Tanaka
Kishi, Fumiko's Mother
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Mitsuko Kusabue
Kyôko Hinatsu
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Jigen Daisuke
Noboru Nakaya
Haruhiko Itatsu
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Yūnosuke Itō
Gorô Shirasaka
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Sanjuro
Jun Tatara
Tamura
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Seven Samurai
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Masao Oda
Fumiko's Father
Known for
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Takeshi Katō
Uenoyama
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Tomoko Fumino
Yasuko Murano
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Mikio Naruse Director · Toshiro Ide Screenplay Sumie Tanaka Screenplay
First release September 29, 1962 · Produced in Japan · Original title 放浪記
Production
Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.
Production
Japan
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Languages
Original title
放浪記
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
Japanese
Release dates
Japan · September 29, 1962
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Russia
May 22, 2001 · Limited theatrical · Retrospective of Mikio Naruse (Moscow)
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