A Wanderer's Notebook (放浪記) 61 years old

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth 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.

Credits

Daisuke Katô as Nobuo Sadaoka

Akira Nagoya as

Chôko Iida as

Akira Takarada as Fukuya

Jun Tatara as Tamura

Hideko Takamine as Fumiko Hayashi

A Wanderer's Notebook Cast

Name	Character
Daisuke Katô	as Nobuo Sadaoka
Akira Nagoya He was 31, 72 years old when he died
Chôko Iida He was 65, 75 years old when he died
Akira Takarada He was 28, now 90 years old	as Fukuya
Jun Tatara He was 45, 89 years old when he died	as Tamura
Hideko Takamine She was 38, 86 years old when she died	as Fumiko Hayashi
Keiju Kobayashi He was 38, 86 years old when he died	as Fujiyama
Kinuyo Tanaka She was 51, 66 years old when she died	as Kishi, Fumiko's mother
Shigeki Ishida He was 38, 72 years old when he died
Yūnosuke Itō He was 43, 60 years old when he died	as Gorô Shirasaka
Kin Sugai She was 36, 92 years old when she died
Chieko Nakakita She was 36, 79 years old when she died
Noboru Nakaya He was 33, 77 years old when he died	as Haruhiko Itatsu
Tatsuo Endo He was 37, 64 years old when he died
Mitsuko Kusabue She was 28, now 90 years old	as Kyôko Hinatsu
Masako Yagi She was 23, 29 years old when she died
Hisaya Ito
Masao Oda He was 54, 65 years old when he died	as Fumiko's father
Takeshi Kato He was 20, 39 years old when he died	as Uenoyama
Natsuko Kahara She was 41, 70 years old when she died
Machiko Kitagawa She was 30, now 92 years old
Mineko Yorozuyo She was 43, now 104 years old

A Wanderer's Notebook Crew

Name	Department
Sanezumi Fujimoto as Producer. He was 52 (68) years old when He died	Production
Toshirô Ide as Screenplay. He was 52 (78) years old when He died	Writing
Kazuo Kikuta as Theatre Play.	Writing
Mikio Naruse as Director. He was 57 (63) years old when He died	Directing
Mikio Naruse as Producer. He was 57 (63) years old when He died	Production
Sumie Tanaka as Screenplay. She was 54 (91) years old when She died	Writing
Jun Yasumoto as Director of Photography.	Camera
Fumiko Hayashi as Author. She was 58 (47) years old when She died	Writing
Tadahiro Teramoto as Producer.	Production
Satoru Chûko as Production Design.	Art

A Wanderer's Notebook (61 years)

Release day: Saturday, September 29, 1962
Runtime: 124 minutes