A Wanderer’s Notebook

Year: 1962

Runtime: 124 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Mikio Naruse

Drama

A late masterpiece by Mikio Naruse dramatizes novelist Fumiko Hayashi’s life. Hideko Takamine gives a performance hailed as her best, with Kinuyo Tanaka as her mother, portraying their struggle in 1920s Tokyo. The film follows Hayashi’s bitter fight for literary recognition amid poverty, menial jobs and humiliating attempts to publish in a male‑dominated culture.

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