Marital Relations (1955)
2h 1m
Running Time
September 13, 1955Release Date
Marital Relations (1955)
2h 1m
Running Time
September 13, 1955Release Date
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Plot.
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.
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Cast & Crew.
Hisaya Morishige
Ryukichi
Chikage Awashima
Choko
Yōko Tsukasa
Actress
Haruo Tanaka
Actor
Shirō Toyoda
Director
Sakunosuke Oda
Writer
Toshio Yasumi
Writer
Ikuma Dan
Composer
Mitsuo Miura
Cinematographer
Eiji Tsuburaya
Visual Effects
Kôichi Iwashita
Editor
Kisaku Ito
Production Design
Masao Fujiyoshi
Sound Recordist
Ichirô Satô
Producer
Junro Ishikawa
Lighting Technician
Sonosuke Sawamura
Akira Tani
Noriko Honma
Ikio Sawamura
Senkichi Ōmura
Chieko Naniwa
Makoto Kobori
Chūzaburō Wakamiya
Rikie Sanjō
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Wiki.
Marital Relations (夫婦善哉, Meoto zenzai), also known as Love is Shared Like Sweets, is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Shirō Toyoda, starring Hisaya Morishige and Chikage Awashima. It is an adaptation of the 1940 novel of the same name by Sakunosuke Oda.Marital Relations tells the story of a couple, a disinherited son of a shopkeeper and his geisha mistress, in Osaka in the early Shōwa era.