A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)

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.

Genres: Drama

Stars: Hideko Takamine, Akira Takarada, Daisuke Katō, Keiju Kobayashi, Kinuyo Tanaka