Marital Relations Explained

Marital Relations
Director:Shirō Toyoda
Producer:Ichiro Sato
Music:Ikuma Dan
Cinematography:Mitsuo Miura
Editing:Kōichi Iwashita
Studio:Toho
Distributor:Toho
Runtime:120 minutes
Country:Japan
Language:Japanese

, 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.

Cast

Awards

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.

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