A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)

Directed by Mikio Naruse

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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.

Genre: Drama

Language: ja

Production

Cinematographer: Jun Yasumoto · Composer: Yūji Koseki · Editor: Eiji Ooi · Production Design: Satoru Chūko

Production: Takarazuka Eiga Company Ltd.

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