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.
Hideko Takamine
Akira Takarada
Daisuke Katō
Keiju Kobayashi
Kinuyo Tanaka
Mitsuko Kusabue
Noboru Nakaya
Yūnosuke Itō
Jun Tatara
Masao Oda
Takeshi Katō
Tomoko Fumino
Natsuko Kahara
Chōko Iida
Machiko Kitagawa
Yurika Benisono
Chieko Nakakita
Toshiko Yabuki
Kin Sugai
Hisaya Ito
Mineko Yorozuyo
Shigeki Ishida
Yutaka Nakayama
Akira Nagoya
Rumi Konishi
Michiko Kawa
Masae Yoshikawa
Tatsuo Endō
Chisato Aoki
Kazuko Inano
Masako Yagi
Michiko Hayashi
Akiko Mori
Yoshiko Uno
Yachiyo Kirishima
Fumiko Umeka
Asao Uchida
Toshiaki Nishizawa
Hiroyuki Sugi
Katsuhiro Oida
Shin Kishida
Daigo Kusano
Isao Hashizume