June 27, 2008

7:00 pm

UNTAMED
Friday, June 27, 2008, 7:00 pm, Meyer Auditorium
In this adaptation of Shusei Tokuda’s 1915 novel, Hideko Takamine plays an independent woman who defies her family’s expectations that she enter an arranged marriage. Takamine gives a powerful, indomitable character portrait, with Nakadai providing a memorable performance in this rare period film that was not included in the Freer’s 2006 retrospective of director Mikio Naruse. 1957 / 120 min. / B&W

Part of the film series, “Tatsuya Nakadai: Icon of Japanese Cinema.” This series is cosponsored by Film Forum, New York, and the Japan Foundation. These films are in Japanese with English subtitles. Film descriptions by Japanese film specialist Michael Jeck.

Free tickets required.
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