Untamed Woman (1957)
Original title: あらくれ
Untamed Woman is a 1957 Japanese-language drama movie directed by Mikio Naruse, with a running time of 2h 1m. It stars Hideko Takamine, Ken Uehara and Daisuke Katō.
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 Oshima
- Ken Uehara as Tsuru, the first husband
- Daisuke Katō as Onoda, the second husband
- Masayuki Mori as Hamaya, her lover
- Mitsuko Miura as Oyu
- Takashi Shimura as Owner of the rice mill
- Tatsuya Nakadai as Kimura
- Eijirō Tōno as Oshima's father
- Teruko Kishi as Oshima's mother
- Seiji Miyaguchi as Sotaro, Oshima's older brother
- Chieko Nakakita as Osuzu, Oshima's older sister
- Takeshi Sakamoto as Kisuke, the foster father