A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
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.
Drama
Cast
- Hideko Takamine — Fumiko Hayashi
- Akira Takarada — Fukuya
- Daisuke Katō — Nobuo Sadaoka
- Keiju Kobayashi — Fujiyama
- Kinuyo Tanaka — Kishi, Fumiko's Mother
- Mitsuko Kusabue — Kyôko Hinatsu
- Noboru Nakaya — Haruhiko Itatsu
- Yūnosuke Itō — Gorô Shirasaka
- Jun Tatara — Tamura
- Masao Oda — Fumiko's Father
- Takeshi Katō — Uenoyama
- Tomoko Fumino — Yasuko Murano
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