A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
2h 4m
Running Time
September 29, 1962Release Date
A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
2h 4m
Running Time
September 29, 1962Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Hideko Takamine
Fumiko Hayashi
Akira Takarada
Fukuya
Daisuke Katō
Nobuo Sadaoka
Keiju Kobayashi
Fujiyama
Kinuyo Tanaka
Kishi, Fumiko's mother
Mikio Naruse
Director
Mitsuko Kusabue
Kyôko Hinatsu
Fumiko Hayashi
Writer
Noboru Nakaya
Haruhiko Itatsu
Kazuo Kikuta
Writer
Yūnosuke Itō
Gorô Shirasaka
Jun Tatara
Tamura
Toshirō Ide
Writer
Sumie Tanaka
Writer
Masao Oda
Fumiko's father
Sanezumi Fujimoto
Producer
Takeshi Katō
Uenoyama
Tomoko Fumino
Yasuko Murano
Jun Yasumoto
Director of Photography
Tadahiro Teramoto
Producer
Satoru Chûko
Production Design
Yūji Koseki
Original Music Composer
Eiji Ooi
Editor
Hisashi Shimonaga
Sound Effects Editor
Chōshirō Ishii
Gaffer
Masazumi Kawanishi
Assistant Director
Toshiya Okihara
Production Manager
Mitsuyoshi Tsujimura
Assistant Director
Kôichi Nakagawa
Sound Recordist
Hisaya Ito
Tatsuo Endō
Chisato Aoki
Kazuko Inano
Masako Yagi
Michiko Hayashi
Akiko Mori
Mineko Yorozuyo
Shigeki Ishida
Yutaka Nakayama
Daigo Kusano
Isao Hashizume
Yoshiko Uno
Yachiyo Kirishima
Fumiko Umeka
Asao Uchida
Toshiaki Nishizawa
Hiroyuki Sugi
Katsuhiro Oida
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A Wanderer's Notebook (放浪記, Hōrōki), also titled Her Lonely Lane, is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse starring Hideko Takamine. It is based on the autobiographical book Diary of a Vagabond by Fumiko Hayashi and its stage adaptation by Kazuo Kikuta.