A Wanderer's Notebook
124 mins
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.
Tomoko Fumino
Yasuko Murano
Kôichi Nakagawa
Sound Recordist
Eiji Ooi
Editor
Toshiya Okihara
Production Manager
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Producer
Masazumi Kawanishi
Assistant Director
Mitsuyoshi Tsujimura
Assistant Director
Chōshirō Ishii
Gaffer
Jun Yasumoto
Director of Photography
Satoru Chūko
Production Design
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Effects Editor
Tadahiro Teramoto
Producer
