A Wanderer's Notebook

Overview

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.

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

N/A

Tomoko Fumino

Yasuko Murano