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!
00:07:23 He's take care of you since you were eight.
00:13:32 A tall man with glasses passes by me.
00:18:49 I'll never be a millionaire.
00:23:58 Ten yen please.
00:28:39 "The night is sad."
00:33:57 Do you think a man who is happy and contented
00:39:08 The mountains of Tanba.
00:45:19 Just tell her I'm your wife.
00:50:39 He belongs to the Red Flag Union.
00:55:43 Yes.
01:00:12 Sure. Not worth that much by far.
01:03:59 I'll vote for the magazine.
01:07:58 It's only occasional they pay us for writing.
01:13:58 Shut up!
01:18:58 Yes, please.
01:25:00 He won't be back tonight.
01:29:54 You may consider this a chance but don't disgrace yourself.
01:35:42 when you told me to go away.
01:41:05 I don't like to borrow blindly.
01:46:10 Stride ahead, step by step.
01:51:09 The heroine is always a beauty.
01:56:43 Sorry! I kept you waiting Mr. Yasuoka.
02:03:25 Short is the life of a flower. Hardship ever hangs upon me.