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.
Summer Hours
Drama
6.5
Jennifer Lopez | All I Have
Music, Documentary
9.7
Acting and Reacting
Comedy
6.9
Godzilla vs. Gigan
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
6.4
Cobra Verde
Adventure, Drama
6.9
The Curse of the Werewolf
Horror
6.5
The Three Friends
Drama
6.1
Juliet of the Spirits
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
7.2
White Zombie
Horror
5.9
Red Beard
Drama
8.1
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Drama, Romance
6.8
Swimming in the Sea
Documentary
5.5
Friends Jokes
Comedy, TV Movie
6.6
Flaming Star
Western
6.5
Entranced Earth
Drama
7.3
The Burglars
Action, Crime, Thriller
7.0
Jurassic Fight Club - Cannibal Dinosaur Claymation
Action, Animation
6.9
The Return of Don Camillo
Comedy
7.2
Roar
Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Thriller
5.9
A Room with a View
TV Movie, Drama, Romance
5.6
Kes
Drama
7.5
Brighton Rock
Crime, Drama, Thriller
6.9
Tokyo Godfathers
Animation, Drama, Comedy
7.9
Friday Night Lights
Drama
6.9
Always - Sunset on Third Street
Comedy, Drama
7.6
Antwone Fisher
Drama, History, Romance
6.9
The Tracker
Drama, History
6.9
October Sky
Drama, Family
7.7
Scrooge
Fantasy, Drama
7.4
A Christmas Carol
Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie, Family
7.5
Write to Kill
Drama, Thriller
4.8
Butterfly in the Typewriter
Drama
0.0
The Hustler
Drama, Romance
7.7
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Science Fiction, Drama
6.5
Straw Dogs
Drama, Thriller, Crime, Action
7.2
The Miracle Worker
Drama
7.9
Babel
Drama
7.2
The Queen
Drama, History
6.9
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Thriller, Crime, Drama
7.2