Untamed (1957 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Untamed

| native_name = {{Infobox Japanese|child=yes|hide=no|header=none|kanji=あらくれ}}

| image = Arakure.jpg

| alt = Arakure

| caption =

| director = Mikio Naruse

| producer = Tomoyuki Tanaka

| writer = Yōko Mizuki

| based_on = {{based on|Rough Living (Arakure)
1915 novel|Shūsei Tokuda}}

| starring = Hideko Takamine

| music = Ichirō Saitō

| cinematography = Masao Tamai

| editing = Eiji Ooi

| studio = Toho

| distributor = Toho

| released = {{Film date|1957|5|22|df=y|ref1={{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1957/cg001980.htm |title=あらくれ (Untamed) |website=Japanese Movie Database |language=ja |access-date=28 January 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://www.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=25278 |title=あらくれ (Untamed) |publisher=Kinema Junpo |language=ja |access-date=28 January 2021}}}}

| runtime = 121 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

}}

{{nihongo|Untamed {{aka}} Untamed Woman|あらくれ|Arakure}} is a 1957 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse. It is based on a novel by Shūsei Tokuda.{{cite book |last=Galbraith IV |first=Stuart |date=2008 |title=The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography |location=Lanham, Toronto, Plymouth |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6004-9}}

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.{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Joseph L. |last2=Richie |first2=Donald |date=1959 |title=The Japanese Film – Art & Industry |location=Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo |publisher=Charles E. Tuttle Company }}

Awards

Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress Hideko Takamine (for Untamed and Times of Joy and Sorrow){{cite web |url=http://mainichi.jp/mfa/history/012.html |title=毎日映画コンクール第12回（1957年） |publisher=Mainichi |language=ja |access-date=28 January 2021}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.eiren.org/academy/data.html |title=List of Japanese films nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film |language=ja |publisher=Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622025242/http://www.eiren.org/academy/data.html| archive-date=22 June 2008 |access-date=28 January 2021}}