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Her Lonely Lane
JAPAN · 1962

Her Lonely Lane

Mikio Naruse
literary ambition gender discrimination economic struggle romantic relationships artistic perseverance
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Synopsis

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.

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