1962: A Wanderer's Notebook (based on Diary of a Vagabond), dir. Mikio Naruse 1986: Wandering Days (anime short, based on Diary of a Vagabond) Hayashi's biography also served as the basis for theatre plays, notably Kazuo Kikuta's 1961 Hourou-ki, about her early life, and Hisashi Inoue's 2002 Taiko tataite, fue fuite, based on her later years, including her entanglement with the militarist regime. Notes References Bibliography External links J'Lit | Authors : Fumiko Hayashi | Books from Japan Full text of an English translation of Hayashi Fumiko's fairy tale The Crane’s Flute (鶴の笛) 1900s births Year of birth uncertain 1951 deaths Japanese women poets Japanese women novelists Japanese women short story writers Feminist writers 20th-century Japanese poets 20th-century Japanese novelists 20th-century Japanese women writers People from Shimonoseki 20th-century Japanese short story writers