Untamed (1957 film)

Untamed a.k.a. Untamed Woman (あらくれ) is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a novel by Shūsei Tokuda.

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.