Marital Relations

Marital Relations
Marital Relations
	Japanese movie poster
Directed by	Shirō Toyoda
Written by	Toshio Yasumi; Sakunosuke Oda (novel);
Produced by	Ichiro Sato
Starring	Hisaya Morishige; Chikage Awashima;
Cinematography	Mitsuo Miura
Edited by	Kōichi Iwashita
Music by	Ikuma Dan
Production; company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	September 13, 1955;
Running time	120 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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.^[1]^[2]

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.

Cast

Marital Relations received the Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Director, Best Actor (Morishige) and Best Actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Film Concours for Best Actor and Best Screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds) on the list of the year's ten best films of Kinema Junpō.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c "夫婦善哉 (Marital Relations)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "夫婦善哉 (Marital Relations)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2021.

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