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A Wanderer's Notebook

Play trailer A Wanderer's Notebook 1962,  2h 4m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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Fumiko tries to get her literary work published and spends years working in bad jobs and being abused by her boyfriend before she finally finds success.

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Richard Brody The New Yorker May 16, 2025
The movie is one of the great cinematic visions of an artistic vocation and the passions that energize it. Go to Full Review
Keith Uhlich Slant Magazine Jun 7, 2006
1.5/4
The resultant self-aware grotesquerie finally seems more in service of hagiography than truth. Go to Full Review
Jim Henry Shin Nichibei/New Japanese American News Jul 17, 2019
An art film of real distinction. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Mikio Naruse

Director

Hideko Takamine

Fumiko Hayashi

Akira Takarada

Fukuya

Daisuke Katô

Nobuo Sadaoka

Keiju Kobayashi

Fujiyama

Kinuyo Tanaka

Kishi Fumiko's mother

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A Wanderer's Notebook

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Movie Info

Synopsis Fumiko tries to get her literary work published and spends years working in bad jobs and being abused by her boyfriend before she finally finds success.
Director
Mikio Naruse
Producer
Sanezumi Fujimoto, Mikio Naruse, Tadahiro Teramoto
Screenwriter
Toshirô Ide, Sumie Tanaka
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Japanese
Runtime
2h 4m
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