A Wanderer's Notebook

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.

Director: Mikio Naruse

Cast: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katō, Keiju Kobayashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Kusabue, Noboru Nakaya, Yūnosuke Itō

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