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.
Street of Shame
1956
7.7/10
Blood and Bones
2004
6.6/10
Sakuran
2006
6.5/10
Hachiko
1987
7.8/10
Hammett
1982
6.2/10
The Life of Oharu
1952
7.7/10
Asakusa Kid
2021
7.1/10
Sweet Bean
2015
7.4/10
If Cats Disappeared from the World
2016
6.8/10
After the Rain
2000
7.3/10
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
1960
8.0/10
Gracie
2007
6.2/10
Midnight Diner
2014
7.6/10
The Insect Woman
1963
7.2/10
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
5.9/10
Won't Back Down
2012
6.1/10
Wonderstruck
2017
6.1/10
Intentions of Murder
1964
7.0/10
The Lower Depths
1957
7.1/10
Genius
2016
6.5/10
The Mothman Prophecies
2002
6.221/10
