Marital Relations (1955)
夫婦善哉
Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named Choko. This betrayal leads his father to disown him, leaving the unskilled Ryukichi with no way to earn a living. To keep them afloat, Choko is forced to continue working as a geisha while secretly scraping together a nest egg to start their own business. However, Ryukichi remains trapped in his hedonistic lifestyle, eventually squandering Choko’s hard-earned savings on his own self-indulgence.
- Date of release
- 1955-09-13
- TMDB
- 5.6 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 2h 1m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Shirō Toyoda
Casting
- Hisaya Morishige — Ryukichi
- Chikage Awashima — Choko
- Yōko Tsukasa
- Haruo Tanaka
- Eiko Miyoshi
- Yoshiko Morikawa
- Isao Yamagata
- Kichijirō Ueda
- Sonosuke Sawamura
- Akira Tani
- Noriko Honma
- Ikio Sawamura
Interesting facts
Marital Relations , 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.
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