A Wanderer's Notebook

Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Mikio Naruse

Status Released

Release Date 1962-09-29

Storyline

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.