Overview
Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-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.
Cast
- Hideko Takamine as Fumiko Hayashi
- Akira Takarada as Fukuya
- Daisuke Katō as Nobuo Sadaoka
- Keiju Kobayashi as Fujiyama
- Kinuyo Tanaka as Kishi, Fumiko's Mother
- Mitsuko Kusabue as Kyôko Hinatsu
- Noboru Nakaya as Haruhiko Itatsu
- Yūnosuke Itō as Gorô Shirasaka
- Jun Tatara as Tamura
- Masao Oda as Fumiko's Father