A Wanderer's Notebook

A quietly devastating, slow-burn character study that immerses you in one woman's arduous, decades-long struggle for creative recognition and personal dignity.

Directed by

Mikio Naruse

Genres

Drama

Starring

Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katō

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.

How it feels

Melancholic, bleak and warm. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Ambition, identity, grief, love

Content

Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.

Note

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