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Wikipedia article




{{Infobox film

| name = Marital Relations

| image = Meoto zenzai poster.jpg

| caption = Japanese movie poster

| director = Shir Toyoda

| producer = Ichiro Sato

| writer =

| starring =

| music = Ikuma Dan

| cinematography = Mitsuo Miura

| editing = Kichi Iwashita

| studio = Toho

| distributor = Toho

| released =

| runtime = 120 minutes

| country = Japan

| language = Japanese

}}

, also known as 'Love is Shared Like Sweets', is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Shir 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 Shwa era.

Cast



* Hisaya Morishige

* Chikage Awashima

* Yoko Tsukasa

* Chieko Naniwa

* Haruo Tanaka

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 Junp'.

References




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