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Hideko Takamine, Kinuyo Tanaka, Daisuke Katô, Noboru Nakaya, Akira Takarada ... see more see more... , Mitsuko Kusabue , Yôko Tsukasa

This Japanese drama presents the biography of popular Japanese writer Fumiko Hayashi. The story begins as she is born to her poor parents. She eventually goes to school, but must drop out to support h... read more read more...erself by taking a series of odd jobs. Along the way, she has several affairs with a variety of men--not all of them nice. Time passes and she writes an autobiographical novel. She then continued writing until she died in 1951. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

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Unrated, 2 hr. 4 min.

Directed by: Mikio Naruse

Release Date: September 29, 1962

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Keith Uhlich
June 7, 2006
Keith Uhlich, Slant Magazine

The resultant self-aware grotesquerie finally seems more in service of hagiography than truth. Full Review

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