A Wanderer's Notebook
1962 · 124 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 465 VOTES · DIR. Mikio Naruse
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,566 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:53 Mama!
00:07:18 Nor any man at all...
00:13:06 But still it's stupid.
00:18:26 45 yen a month? I applied for it once.
00:23:33 I got my pay today. So I bought two cutlets. Here you are.
00:28:01 No.
00:32:36 Well, that's life...
00:38:12 Could anyone ever be bad to such a sweet girl?
00:44:20 I can't stay away from you any longer.
00:49:31 Our girls don't know how to entertain men.
00:53:51 who is in the country.
00:58:41 Is she in? Tokiko?
01:02:41 Oh, pardon me!
01:06:41 It's a pity I have nothing to treat you to.
01:11:06 Don't worry. Someone's waiting for me today.
01:16:44 No energy at all.
01:21:52 Come in Mother!
01:27:45 That's bitter criticism but...
01:32:12 I have a girl.
01:38:14 Is Miss Hayashi in?
01:43:21 Thank you...
01:48:30 I never asked anybody to read my manuscripts.
01:53:04 "and scattering the contents."
01:58:25 Hope not because of me.