A Wanderer's Notebook (放浪記 Hourou-ki), also known as Her Lonely Lane is a 1962 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Mikio Naruse, starring Hideko Takamine. The film is based on the autobiography of author Fumiko Hayashi, whose work the director often adapted for the screen.
Plot:
Fumiko Hayashi (Hideko Takamine)
is a young woman can't find a decent job, meanwhile being dumped by her
boyfriend and writing on the side. People say her writing on poverty is
good, but she can't sell it and continues with dead end factory and bar
hostess jobs and occasional heavy drinking. She gets together with
another aspiring writer Fukuya (Akira Takarada) who can't sell his work either. Despite she doing all she can for him and his disease tuberculosis, he abuses her verbally and eventually physically. She walks out, comes back, walks out again. A kind man, Nobuo Sadaoka (Daisuke Katō) helps her occasionally, but she rejects his proposal. After these struggles, the film ends up with her literary success.
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