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Fumiko Hayashi
Biography: Daughter of a poor peddler. Went to school and did all sorts of trades to earn a living. Having lived in a continuous state of poverty, she attempted suicide on various occasions. Her first book was the autobiography _Horoki_ but it wasn't until the end of the war that she became widely known as a writer. By the time of her death, she had become the most popular writer in Japan. (- IMDb mini biography by: Walter Provo)
Total Credits at Criticker: 7 (Writer)
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A Wanderer's Notebook, also known as Her Lonely Lane, is director Mikio Naruse's hollow biopic of authoress Fumiko Hayashi, whose work the director often adapted for the screen. (Slant Magazine)
Returning to a devastated postwar Tokyo, Yukiko seeks out Kengo, a married forestry engineer with whom she had a passionate affair during World War II in occupied French Indochina. Disillusioned to find him unwilling to leave his wife, she becomes trapped in a toxic, destructive cycle of reunion and betrayal, clinging to memories of a past that no longer exists in a ruined nation.
What is the life of a Geisha like once her beauty has faded and she has retired? Kin has saved her money, and has become a wealthy money-lender, spending her days cold-heartedly collecting debts. Even her best friends, Tomi, Nobu, and Tamae, who were her fellow Geisha, are now indebted to her. Kin has two former lovers who still pursue her; one she wants to see, and the other she doesn't. But even the one she remembers fondly, when he shows up, proves to be a disappointment. (imdb)
The competing husband and wife voiceovers that open the 1953 Mikio Naruse melodrama Wife set up a character dialectic that never comes to fruition and though the title suggests the resulting imbalance may be intentional, the film still plays out as a deeply flawed examination of marital discord. (Slant Magazine)
Kiyoko is 23 and works as a tour guide. She lives with her mother and has two sisters and a brother, all from different fathers. Despite and because of various forms of pressure, the problems she sees and experiences around her make her suspicious of men and marriage, and very ambivalent about her relations to her own family.
Living in a working-class suburb of Osaka, a disillusioned housewife feels trapped in the tedious routine of her low-income marriage. Her resentment deepens when her husband's lively young niece arrives from Tokyo and begins openly flirting with him. Pushed to her emotional limit by domestic exhaustion and neglect, she leaves for her hometown to re-evaluate her future and independence.
A story about a little boy who, after his widowed mother decides to remarry, is shuffled about, from relative to relative.
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