A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
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.
- Mikio Naruse
- Masazumi Kawanishi
- Mitsuyoshi Tsujimura
- Sumie Tanaka
- Toshirō Ide
- Fumiko Hayashi
- Kazuo Kikuta
Rating: 7.2/10 by 11 users
Alternative Title:
Her Lonely Lane - US
放浪記 - JP
Chronique de mon vagabondage - FR
Hôrô-ki - JP
Hourou-ki - JP
방랑기 - KR
Country:
Japan
Language:
日本語
Runtime: 02 hour 04 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: waitress, based on novel or book, biography, tokyo, japan, novelist, peddler, 1920s
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