A Wanderer's Notebook (放浪記, Hōrōki), also titled Her Lonely Lane, is a 1962 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse starring Hideko Takamine.
[1][2][3] It is based on the autobiographical book Diary of a Vagabond by Fumiko Hayashi and its stage adaptation by Kazuo Kikuta.
[4] Fumiko Hayashi is a young woman who cannot find a decent job and has been dumped by her boyfriend; she writes on the side.
Fumiko's friends tell her that her writing about her life in poverty is excellent and impressive, but no publishing company will buy her autobiographic novel.
A Wanderer's Notebook was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985[5] and at the Harvard Film Archive in 2005[6] as part of their retrospectives on Mikio Naruse.