Please call me any time if I can be of any help to you
Remember that
Thank you
Good day
Good afternoon
The girls walking down the street look like a sole in a stream
I wish I could be like them
Oh God! Wherever you are
Answer me, Are you really standing around me?
I don't think you like a girl like me
I can't see through you, you God!
Yet, I can't help by pray you
That I may today sell this story
We don't usually buy children's stories by unknown writer
But this is my best work.
Don't you like it?
Leave it here anyway.
We might buy it, but we wouldn't pay you much
Maybe less than thirty sen per page.
twenty sen per page will be enough.
Ten page
I yen and 50 sen in all.
That'll be all then
Well, keep looking hard.
Read Andersen.
Yes, I'll read Andersen
Eight!
Nine
You all right?
I am all right
Ten
Great! She drunk all ten glasses
I can't believe it
Did she drink 10 glasses ?
Now your bet !
Ten yen against her drinking 10 cups
A bet is a bet
That's wonderful. Let's celebrate Fumiko!
I should get some too, shouldn't I?
Oh. good evening.
Is she in? Tokiko?
Tokiko!!
Bring some drinks, quick
Good evening
Come on, entertain them well
Are you already going?
Yes. See you soon
Thank you very much
Tokiko. You are more beautiful than ever
Pretty like a jewel Not like this dunghill
is it me who is the dunghill?
Exactly. You sluts are no better than dunghills.
That is not proper language.
Well, Tokiko. Can I keep you company tonight?
What do you mean, keep me company?
To sleep with. And you know that.
Keep quiet!
She's so naive. That's why I'm fond of her
Then don't teach her such words.
She'll become a slut like you...
unless somebody protects her. And I will do it.
There are girls at the "Golden Star" that are for sale for 50 sen.
What a talk!
None of our girls are like that.
Sure. Not worth that much by far
35 sen at best.
A 35 sen whore. That's a laugh
You fools!
To hell with you!
What's this?
Fumiko!
How dare you!
I called fools fools, that's all
You drank too much. Go!
Take her away girls! Hurry!
Come, Fumiko!
Everybody knows whether or not he's good looking.
Look at your face in a mirror
What?
No hard feelings now. Tokiko be nice to you
You too Mr. Nishihara
A man... a man has to do it. he does not eat
when we're starving...
who could blame us if we sold ourselves for ten sen!
Shut up, Fumiko!
Come on! take her away
You talk big, but don't know nothing
Get out, you swine
And what are you?
Get out and what?
Fumiko! You're fired
You can't talk me like that!
Understand?
Stop it! She's drunk, that's all
How disgusting. Let's go!
Then, why don't you drink next door
Tokiko, you go with them and make them happy
Please enjoy company
Please cheer up and have nice time and good drinks
What a jerk!
Good riddance
You're right.
Is Fumiko in?
Mr Shirasaka!
Oh, there you are.
One beer please
This is Miss Fumiko hayashi Miss Hinatsu
She's a member of our group. She writes poems too.
Oh, pardon me,
Fumiko, you were Date's girl once. What do you know?
who was the first?
I was before her...
and I was after her.
Is that so?
Then Fumiko was between you.
I tell you what...
We're through, he and I.
Really?
He was impossible. Thinking too much of himself
Yes indeed
he believed handsome men are almighty
I'll make a proposition.
Why don't you two publish a magazine.
Just two of us?
Yes. And you can beat men down with your poems.
I can't beat men down anyhow.
I can't stop loving them though they beat me.
How honest you are!
But we need money.
I'll pay you up
My parents send me money every month
We could afford to drink with that money. But that's nothing.
I'll vote for the magazine.
Your poems must be read by people. If not, they are useless.
It's your secret, isn't it?
A magazine for two of us, but I'm only an addition, aren't I?
Why?
Because you are in love with Kyoko.
You shouldn't mention it.
Don't hide it from us.
Let's publish that magazine together
What do you like the title to be ? Couple
Two women who used to be the wives of one man
Interesting, isn't it?
Shall we start it, then?
Let's do it
It's settled. I'll arrange to have it published soon.
You must be very happy
He's still at it
I'll marry you when I want to.
Wish that 'd be soon.
this sounds sad.
Don't make me feel too sad.
Come to my place Fumiko, when you feel lonely.
You give me the meaning of life I give you the pleasure of life.
How harsh
You want to be the food and drink of your woman?
I meant, love that much.
That's the same thing.
But it's clear cut. I like it
Well, I don't know
Let's have a toast!
Come join us everybody! Let's drink!
I've written a children's song.
But I don't know if it can sell.
I've stopped expecting.
Yet, I write and write like a fury.
And still, silly things well up in my mind...
Sweet and dear memories of this and that.
God bless my soul! Amen!
Is Fumiko in?
Is that you, Mr Fukuchi?
Come in, please.
I'm glad you've come.
I have no place else to go in this rain.
It's a pity I have nothing to treat you to.
I had 5 sen this morning...
So I bought some candy. My ration for today.
Aren't you working?
Not for several days.
Look at my legs.
All swollen up
When you push, it makes a pit. See?
Eat lots of barley.
That's my problem, to eat lots
Lots.
What would you like to eat now?
Boiled eggs.
What else?
Taiyaki cakes
What else?
Strawberry jam.
What else?
Chinese noodles
what else?
You're mean.
My stomach's growling.
Let's go eat them all. I've money today.
I sold an essay.
That's great! Why didn't you tell me that first?
That's nothing.
It's only occasional they pay us for writing.
Don't take things that way.
Someday you'll be able to earn your living
You're too optimistic.
Not exactly.
Sometimes I wish I would die.
Late in the night, I take a walk.
I don't think, honestly, I wish to die...
"But I say "I wish I would die"
"Then, I feel somehow at ease."
To feel at ease is a pleasure you can get without a penny.
The whiteness of the stone makes them look light,
Someday I'll become a tombstone like that... someday.
"Will I be able to become a ghost?"
A ghost need neither to eat nor to pay rent,
The affection for parents, the torment from the sense of repayment...
They vanish like smoke.
Encircled among a family of new stones which belong to nobody yet...
The mason is sleeping peacefully.
When the day breaks he cuts and dresses the stones, and makes money from them.
It goes the same way in any business,
I think I will marry Mr Fukuchi.
Hello Fumiko.
Hello Hatsuko, come in.
As you see - Not very well. Come in anyway.
All the girls are well?
About half of them left after you'd gone.
Really? How is Tokiko?
That's why I came. I'm entrusted with the money...
She told me she'd borrowed.
6 Yen and 50 sen.
What's become of her... married?
If it were marriage... but.
Mistress of that construction workers' boss
She gets 80 yen allowance monthly.
I met her once She wore a nice kimono.
Let's have some noodles.
Don't worry. Someone's waiting for me today.
Going to that pawnshop.
So far?
An old friend of mine. Gives me more than the others.
So long!
Good-bye!
I sold my futon. Fukuchi says that one is enough for us two. I paid the rent overdue.
I bought rice and curtain with what was left and came to him.
We've eaten nothing since morning. Sitting down in the room.
We both write without expectations.
How about eating something nice?
Curry rice, pork cutlet of beefsteak?
Any money?
Well, without food we can't live.
No collector will come till tomorrow morning. So...
Can you manage tomorrow?
Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Miss Hayashi
Look! Postal order
Three Yen!
For the stories I wrote 6 months ago.
30 sen a sheet. wonderful!
Thanks, thanks! I'm grateful to Buddha!
No use to worry about tomorrow,
A lucky wind already blows for us.
Let's celebrate whatever we like.
Curry rice, pork cutlet or beefsteak?
Shut up!
We're hungry.
Let's go out for dinner
Got 30 sen for a sheet. don't get so excited.
As if you're already rich.
Send my MSS off now.
You mean at once?
That's right
Can't you wait tomorrow...
what?
So for mister Fukuchi
I've read his story, and I'm sorry to say
It's unsuitable for our magazine
I should like to ask of you just one more chance.
No use to keep it.
Excuse me, I am busy.
Give me a cigarette!
just a moment, please.
Dinner's ready
Cigarettes
I'll go to buy cigarettes. Please eat this.
Don't you like these?
Cigarettes!
Paid 5 sen for beancurd
3 sen for sardines.
And 2 sen for pickles.
Look! I made 3 kinds of dishes.
Don't you appreciate my cooking?
Don't boast about it.
Where you going?
Here's cigarette money.
Good bye!
What shall I do?
I don't know
Keep on living with him - I'll be tough as steel.
I'll be a woman with neither smiles nor tears.
I want to make a fire - gather and burn empty bales and leaves.
I've no wish to live on under these conditions.
No energy at all.
I want to burn his papers
Come back to the room to take out the important papers.
Take out three of his poems and hold them over the fire.
Poems will be nothing but ashes.
I hate him, yet I hesitate to burn them.
After all I can't burn them and take them back.
I carried my husband's transcripts to publisher every day.
but nothing change
To Miss Hayashi, c/o Mr. Fukuchi.
Hope I'm not wasting your time
No, You've come at a good time
Miss Himatsu and Miss Murano are here
I introduce you to Miss Murano,
Mr. Shirasaka...
I've come to ask to make us a loan.
Oh, I see . All right, I understand.
Come on in, anyway.
My. It's Fumiko! It's been a long time!
Hello, Kyoko.
This is Miss Fumiko Haashi of the Pacific Poets.
Mrs Fukuchi..?
That's right.
This is Miss Murano, a rising writer.
Ho do you do?
Please to meet you.
Miss Murano lives not far from your love nest
About five minutes walk
We haven't yet attacked your love nest...
Could we come one day?
Yes, please.
You have a fine reputation among us.
You're carrying his manuscripts to publishers?
You couldn't do it if you married Mr. Shirasaka?
Don't worry about me. I would carry her manuscripts.
There'd be no better husband in the world.
Why don't you get married?
No. Not yet.
A waiting game?
I'm back.
Must be hungry.
I bought taiyaki cakes.
Have some.
Can't trick me like this!
What's the matter? Why are you angry?
Your manuscripts...
They didn't sell.
I went to all the publishers
but it was the same thing. And finally I was getting tired of it.
I ran from one publisher to another only for you.
What does this mean?
A letter came with it.
We regret to inform you that your novelette brought this morning
is unsuitable for our magazine, hence returned herewith.
Returned so soon!
Sooner than your return!
Don't tell me you were carrying my stories
I did carry yours, too...
But something had to be sold, my own at least.
I've had enough of married life with you
Don't say that, please!
I want to settle with you here, after all.
Excuse me
Is Fumiko in?
Mother!
It's been so long.
Come in Mother
My mother has come from the country.
I am Fumiko's mother.
Please take good care of her.
Don't you want to wash up?
Yes, I will. Thank you.
This is the left-over from lunch.
It hasn't gone bad. You can eat it.
Where you going?
He seems like he's afraid.
Are you happy? with him?
he's nice to me sometimes...
But if I'd come to marry someone again...
I'd marry a carpenter or even a rickshawman...
but never a writer!
All is the same in the country...dull as usual.
Times are at their worst now.
Do you have some money?
No more than 30 sen now
What are you going to do?
If I could stay here....
for several days, father will bring his goods here
What are they?
He bought some baskets intending to sell them here
They'll never sell at all.
Business is poor in Tokyo, too?
You'd better go back home...
before father comes up.
But I arrived here only today!
What else can we do?
We have no extra bedding here
Your husband is late
He won't be back tonight.
It happen often?
I got used to it
Won't you come back to the country with me?
After these two years and a half, your face look so hard.
It's my myopia. It got worse.
Come back to the country and start a new life!
Shall we you and I live together go peddling again?
You're unfortunate in your marriage.
I hear TB can be cured by drinking a soup made of horse shit
But what's good for the poor man? Double suicide?
Money, money, always money
They say money is circulating among people but
Although I work, it doesn't get to me.
Here it is!
Are you at home, Fukuchi?
Fumiko, are you there?
Nobody in?
Shall we come in?
Without invitation?
Nothing to steal, eh?
Good day.
They're out.
Better house than I expected.
Guess the rent is 8 yen.
I don't like poems with trade mark of poverty.
Because you're well bred and rich. eh?
Her poems - like open dust-bins.
shake contents and throw them out just to see them.
something of physical disgust?
Some people like her poems Call them naked
That nakedness...
She wants to show off her nudity
As if to say I'm so poor, don't you think...
it's like standing on a stage
That's bitter criticism but...
There's nothing of a love-nest around here
Do they get on well together?
Fukuchi is selfish...
Perhaps TB naturally made him so
She chooses and loves handsome boys only..
You can't blame her on that score.
If so, you should be desperate.
You're welcome, nice to see you.
Hello!
We were waiting for you.
No locks. May tempt a burglar.
Fukuchi is not here?
Went to the hospital?
How's he lately?
There's nothing definite
How are things?
Well, Yasuko wants to talk to you. So I brought her here
Mrs Hasegawa wants to read your stories and Kyoko's.
Poems?
She prefers prose...
Maybe it will appear in her magazine
You're ambitious, so may want to write for a large magazine like...
But it's good though for a debut.
Of course, if they take me, I'll be so pleased.
I'll write too.
Please send them to me, both of you.
Deadline is May 31.
Only one is chose. So...
don't blame us if you fail
How are you?
Welcome home
Fumiko, are you going to write for the magazine?
Yes I am.
You may consider this a chance but don't disgrace yourself
That sounds strange Fukuchi.
A writer like you can not understand
You don't understand neither
Fumiko loves you.
A tough girl like Fumiko is good for you, a sick man
Be reasonable
imbecile
What? I'm advising you out of kindness.
Do you want me to give material to one...
who works to feed her husband and is proud of it?
Let's go Good-bye!
We'll come again
Good-bye!
Listen. Shirasaki said that your poems are dirty like...
like shaking a dust-bin and spilling it
I live that way.
I can't write a false story.
Dust bin. He said it!
I agree with him. I'm tired of you.
Get out and leave me.
No. I won't.
Why not?
I don't like you, either. A man like a rotten woman.
But any man will do for my husband.
I've come to know that how often I divorce and remarry...
A man's still a man.
I've another reason...
I've found a better girl so go away.
I asked you to come with me, if you feel lonely, you remember?
I'm still lonely
I have a girl
Better bring her here.
Alright, I will.
Please.
I'll sleep with her
I don't care
Whatever you do. I'll stay. I'm your wife.
stay if you like
Do you like me so much?
No, I hate you!
Applaud me with clapping hands just for escaping from a man
Oh god. What should I do...
Shall I die?
I'm driven to the end. No hope to live. Merciless...
Didn't you ask a day off on account of toothache?
Can't serve guest but can study.
Going to be a teacher?
Pardon me please.
You're a new comer and already pretending illness only after 2 weeks.
A good customer?
Why come to this place?
Have you no cigarettes?
Aren't you hungry?
Poor stupid boy!
What do you like? Chinese fried rice?
Anything will do.
Who is he?
her husband maybe
What sort of man?
Fried rice.
All right
And one beer
Who's he? H's handsome but looks tired.
Why do you grin? I'll hit you.
When will you come back?
I left the house
when you told me to go away
That's your last bottle.
Let's go home together tonight.
No, not tonight.
Then tomorrow
Well
Good afternoon
Oh! welcome.
have you written yet?
Yes. I've sent it yesterday
Full of confidence
Not at all
I've finished and went to Yasuko...
She was out. Will you take this to her?
Yes I will.
Tonight, I'm going to Hokkaido with him
With Shirasaka?
Yes. To see his parents
At last. Congratulation
He finally won
He's a good person.
He's not very reliable, but it may last
Oh! Hello!
Congratulations!
Thank you.
Reasonable greetings from you
he's become a little more kind
Is it alright about my stories?
Excuse me.
Good luck to you
Is Miss Hayashi in?
It's very nice of you to call on me.
I got your letter.
the earlier the better I thought.
Please come in
Nice house !
You couldn't speak ill of me even a single word, could you?
Can't I call it a splendid house?
Much better than those lodgings.
He's my husband.
How do you do. I'm Yasuoka.
I've known her ever since she lived in Hongo.
I'm Fukuchi.
Isn't he well?
No. Tuberculosis.
I wrote to you after thinking it over and over again.
Can't manage the sum you want.
I brought only 20 yens here.
I always make unreasonable demands on you.
Oh, no! I was rather pleased you remembered me.
Thank you very much
It's a great help.
Fumiko, what's that?
For your medicine.
Well, I see.
Please thank him.
He's been so good.
Don't be so formal.
Ah! What are you doing.
So I hit her.
I don't want to sell my wife's chastity.
Who else lend us money? I've borrowed as much as I can
I earn no tips, sold nothing No other way than asking him
He loves you, I know.
If to love to be kind are the same thing.
Get money by using love for her husband?
She has not the least affection for me.
We're merely old friends.
I don't like to borrow blindly.
Yet, I have to borrow money.
You know the fact yet you live on that money.
What?
stop it
Get out of here
stop it
I am leaving. This time , I'm really leaving
Never come to you again. You, madman.
I'm sure I can live quite well without you.
Come to me if you're lonely You said so proudly
But it was you who came to me every 2or 3 weeks.
What! Get away!
I won't be cheated again, even if you ask me in tears.
Or with a smile or a shout.
I don't care for you any more. I don't know you!
Wonderful
A wandering Life Fumiko Hayashi
Is it really her work?
Day after day she was writing so seriously
How much you will get from it?
Well...
Let me see
Fumiko, you've a guest - A lady.
It's you! Good afternoon
Why did you call me here?
Stop! don't use violence.
Congratulations, Fumiko.
Thank you...
I had no intention of coming here.
But Kyoko asked me to be a witness
Witness - You exaggerate.
No, I don't
I'm sorry I was a little late bringing your story to Yasuko
Do you think you can be over with sorry?
Delivered 10 days after the deadline.
10 days...
Such much late?
Your story had been chosen for publication
and we needed no more manuscript
I thought Kyoko couldn't write... so I didn't urge her
She took her work back anyway.
Nobody reads her work
Lost chance that may never come again
When I got her manuscript
I thought what would I do if mine was inferior to hers
I had no intention to let it be delayed purposely.
I left him that night
I put your story in my parcel and left the house.
I should have sent it to Yasuko that night.
Badly wanted to read it through.
I intended to send it on the following day
But I got no job at any cafe
Days passed before I found a place in a cheap hotel
So, you kept the story and the deadlines passed
I'll give up writing forever!
I never wanted to stop you. What shall I say...
My fate...
My wandering fate...
has interrupted your chance.
Stop talking you say
your don't rely on others for it
'Help yourself', you want to say...
That'll be enough, Kyoko
You've stepped your first step. But remember
Not everybody would bless you. This is not especially for you
For most people
The higher the mountain, the stronger the wind
Stride ahead, step by step
Let's try our best
let's go now Kyoko
I'm surprised
Terrible woman
Mine is better and I've beaten her
That's true. Don't be beaten.
I won't be
Are you still working. Don't you want to sleep?
The noise of my pen is disturbing you?
If I wanted, I wouldn't hear it.
You'll let me write?
Unbearable to think someone is working while you sleep
Our exhibition coming soon
I'm irritable
Are you a painter?
Not an independent painter yet.
I'm writing day and night.
Even if my fingers hurt, I won't stop writing
It will hurt your eyes to write in this dark place
Let me see
I've some tools. I'll hind it for you.
Is it tiresome?
It's interesting.
it's wrong to say interesting.
You've had bitter experiences
I never asked anybody to read my manuscripts.
nor to have them bound by another person.
first experience
Thank you.
Simple job!
Hide me, please.
What's the matter?
Where has she gone?
That whore came in here, didn't she?
No such girl here.
If you hide her, you'll be punished, too.
Awake and stand up, everyone!
Get up! get up!
Stand up! I've caught you.
I say stand up!
She's not a street-girl... was sleeping with me.
Think I don't know what one look like.
Are you in her gang ?
Neither I nor she are prostitutes.
Come with me
She is not that sort.
Come along with me.
Wait a moment, please.
What?
She's not a whore. She's a writer.
Writer?
here's her story, just finished.
Her name?
Fumiko Hayashi.
Fumiko Hayashi?
Never heard of it. Come on!
Officer...
Want to come with us?
Don't worry, Mr Painter.
Sounds interesting. good experience!
keep my story, will you? Don't forget.
Rising star in the library A Wandering life - Fumiko Hayashi
A WANDERING LIFE Coming-out parity
Nice? selling her own tale of poverty.
And the world welcomes it
We'll dry up if we take no food like that
Was she loved by so many men?
The heroine is always a beauty.
The printer said to be very kind to her.
No special relations with her
Nearly closing time?
Neither Date, nor Fukuchi came after all
Kyoko didn't come either.
She's decided this morning.
You've come!
Welcome!
Came to offer congratulations to her.
You'd better not...
I think it's alright. Go on!
My name is Fukuchi - appearing in wandering life by Miss Hayashi
I am the model of a cruel and effeminate man.
What shall I say about this book?
To praise or criticize...
depends on the result of her work
Once we were a couple but now strangers to each other
Admit her as a writer, I myself can be also a writer even if talentless...
let me see it as though strangers to each other.
Fumiko...
Remember Shirasaka's words came from hatred of your poems?
just like stirring a dust-bin, and scattering the contents.
I agreed with him.
But lately I read them over again with hatred.
and found that scattered contents of the dust-bin...
are a true beauty, not of false.
Fumiko. A wandering life is a fine work
but a bit too many tears to make one weep.
And in some parts, you draw me as a bad man.
I conclude with a quote from you
anything can't be of any help
Congratulations for your book.
I praise your talents and efforts
Congratulations!
Fumiko, you were completely judged up by Fukuchi
Can't help it
Now the stage is open for you Do your best !
Win or lose, only by writing
I will write!
If I won't, people will say that a wandering life is my sole work.
A wandering life is not all of myself
"Here "A wandering Life" is not all" of me
The year 1951
When did you come?
Been here with no lunch.
She ignores the deadline.
4 pieces for magazines 2 novels for the papers,
Healthy woman!
Whenever I see her picture in the papers I remember the old days.
I've got old now. She invited me to live with her.
I came up from the country. She gave me these funny clothes.
Anniversary service?
No, this is for daily wear.
Although I don't like this style,
I'm not allowed to take it off.
Oh, I see
I'd prefer country wear
better keep a shop or so, but...
She's probably seen a noble lady in that style, somewhere.
She wanted to let you wear that...
All through her happy times.
She was wishing and dreaming of it.
I'll wear it if Fumiko is pleased.
This is not for a person of today.
Sorry! I kept you waiting Mr Yasuoka.
Mother. It looks good on you
Very noble style.
Like Yozei-in in the '47 Ronin'
You think it looks funny?
Don't think so.
Come this way, please.
Men from the publishers and newspapers are waiting for you.
Serve them tea and cakes and say you're sorry,
Mother. You may take it off as it's hot today.
Yes. Thank you.
Really, you're very busy.
I refuse they say I consider myself a real writer.
I heard you became a company president
A small printing shop. To avoid heavy taxes.
You used to help me kindly,
If it was not for you, I should have died of hunger
You're really a good-natured man
Because I loved you.
Strange person you are
How about your wife?
I didn't marry.... Simple life.
Hope not because of me.
Don't be concerned.
After the death of my wife, I preferred to be single.
Attracted by you a little.
Please be at ease.
Excuse me.
three men came to see you.
who?
One from a charity society.
Society to help the poor, then refuse him.
The poor must work. No other way for them
It's the Society for Handicapped children.
You may contribute a small sum
Then a man came up from Kagoshima.
He says he's your father cousin.
He asks to let him stay here tonight.
Let him stay at hotel tonight Ask him to leave tomorrow
Give him travel expenses
Next is a young man from a literary group.
Asking for monthly help: as you're in sympathy with the poor
Call him a fool and that he should
Work and earn money for his own magazine.
Do you think I'm cruel.
No -
Please tell me the truth.
One only knowing the present you...
might call you a cold person.
Nobody knows you've experienced the pain of starvation.
There are no relatives, no strangers for a person in this world.
Born alone and to die alone.
Unless he helps himself, who will help him.
Pardon my preaching to you, a writer.
You're very pale.
I didn't sleep yesterday.
nor the day before yesterday.
Take care of yourself.
Thank you.
May I see your garden?
Of course. I'm collecting azaleas.
Really?
welcome home.
You'll catch cold. Haven't you slept?
I wanted to...
Take care of yourself.
Yes. I'll sleep now.
It's all right.
Resting always makes it better
Short is the life of a flower Hardship ever hangs upon me