A Wanderer's Notebook
放浪記
1962 · 2h 4m · Drama · Japan
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.
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1920sbased on novel or bookbiographynovelistpeddlerpoettaisho periodtokyo, japanwaitresswriter
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