A Wanderer's Notebook

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.

• Mikio NaruseDirector
• Toshiro IdeScreenplay
• Sumie TanakaScreenplay
• Yūji KosekiOriginal Music Composer

• Hideko TakamineFumiko Hayashi
• Akira TakaradaFukuya
• Daisuke KatōNobuo Sadaoka
• Keiju KobayashiFujiyama
• Kinuyo TanakaKishi, Fumiko's Mother
• Mitsuko KusabueKyôko Hinatsu
• Noboru NakayaHaruhiko Itatsu
• Yūnosuke ItōGorô Shirasaka
• Jun TataraTamura
• Masao OdaFumiko's Father
• Takeshi KatōUenoyama
• Tomoko FuminoYasuko Murano