
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.

as Fumiko Hayashi

as Fukuya

as Nobuo Sadaoka

as Fujiyama

as Kishi, Fumiko's Mother

as Kyôko Hinatsu

as Haruhiko Itatsu

as Gorô Shirasaka

as Tamura

as Fumiko's Father

as Uenoyama

as Yasuko Murano






























