Untamed a.k.a. Untamed Woman (Japanese: あらくれ, Hepburn: Arakure) is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a novel by Shūsei Tokuda.
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Plot summary
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for success, takes up with a tailor who cannot console himself with her strong personality.
Cast
Hideko Takamine as Ōshima
Ken Uehara as Tsuru
Masayuki Mori as Hamaya
Daisuke Katō as Onoda
Eijirō Tōno as Ōshima's father
Seiji Miyaguchi as Sotaro
Tatsuya Nakadai as Kimura
Teruko Kishi as Ōshima's mother
Chieko Nakakita as Osuzu
Takeshi Sakamoto as Kisuke
Takashi Shimura as owner of the rice mill
Mitsuko Miura as Oyuri
Natsuko Kahara as Otoku
Reception
Donald Richie and Joseph L. Anderson found in protagonist Ōshima "one of the strongest characters Naruse ever created", but also an out-of-place "postwar strain of neuroticism" in Hideko Takamine's interpretation.
Awards
Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress Hideko Takamine (for Untamed and Times of Joy and Sorrow)
Background
Untamed was Japan's submission to the 30th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.