A Wanderer's Notebook
A Wanderer's Notebook | |
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Directed by | Mikio Naruse |
Screenplay by | Toshirō Ide Sumie Tanaka |
Based on | A Wanderer's Notebook by Fumiko Hayashi |
Produced by | Toho Sanezumi Fujimoto |
Starring | Hideko Takamine Akira Takarada Daisuke Katō Kinuyo Tanaka |
Cinematography | |
Edited by | |
Music by | Yuji Koseki |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
A Wanderer's Notebook (放浪記, Hourou-ki), also known as Her Lonely Lane, is a 1962 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Mikio Naruse, starring Hideko Takamine.[2] The film is a biopic about the novelist and poet Fumiko Hayashi, whose favorite phrase was “The life of a flower is short. It is full of sufferings.”[3][4]
Plot[]
Fumiko Hayashi (Hideko Takamine) is a young woman who cannot find a decent job and has been dumped by her boyfriend; she writes on the side. Fumiko's friends tell her that her writing about her life in poverty is excellent and impressive, but no publishing company will buy her autobiographic novel. She continues working as a bar girl and a factory worker and gets together with another aspiring writer, Fukuchi (Akira Takarada), who has also been struggling to sell his work. Despite the fact that she does all she can for him and cares for him while he suffers from tuberculosis, he abuses her verbally and eventually physically. She walks out of him, returns, and then walks out again. Yasuoka (Daisuke Katō), a warm-hearted and hard-working man, helps Fumiko in every way possible and asks for her hand, but she rejects his proposal—to Fumiko, Yasuoka is more of a friend than a lover. After these struggles, the film ends with her literary success.
Cast[]
- Hideko Takamine as Fumiko Hayashi
- Akira Takarada as Fukuchi
- Daisuke Katō as Yasuoka
- Tatsuo Endō as Chief editor
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Kishi, Fumiko's mother
References[]
- ^ (in Japanese)http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1962/cl003090.htm accessed 12 May 2011
- ^ "Horo ki towa". kotobank. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ "Horou ki". Kinema Junpo. Retrieved 27 December 2020.
- ^ "Horo ki". Agency for Cultural Affairs 映画情報システム. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
External links[]
- Uhlich Keith. "A Wanderer's Notebook review." Slant Magazine, 1 March 2006.
- A Wanderer's Notebook at Japan Movie Database
- A Wanderer's Notebook at IMDb
- A Wanderer's Notebook at Rotten Tomatoes
- A Wanderer's Notebook on Mubi (website)
- 1962 films
- Japanese-language films
- 1962 drama films
- Japanese black-and-white films
- Japanese films
- Japanese drama films
- Toho films
- Films based on works by Fumiko Hayashi
- Films directed by Mikio Naruse
- Films produced by Sanezumi Fujimoto
- 1960s Japanese film stubs