Untamed Woman

The film follows the life of a woman. She marries first. The child she bears is stillborn. The marriage then comes to an end. She next gives her heart to a hotel-keeper. But all that man cares about is his own rise. She is pushed into the background in that relationship. She then takes up with a tailor. The tailor cannot cope with how strong a person she is. The account passes through those three relationships. Her effort to stand on her own feet is at the centre of it. The film was adapted from a novel and is set in the Taisho period. Hideko Takamine and Masayuki Mori take the leads in Mikio Naruse’s Japanese film of 1957, which runs a hundred and twenty one minutes.