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Marital Relations (1955)

2h 1m

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September 13, 1955
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Marital Relations (1955)

Name: Marital Relations
Genre: Drama
Released: 1955-09-13

2h 1m

Running Time

September 13, 1955
Release Date

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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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Release Date
September 13, 1955

Original Name
夫婦善哉

Status
Released

Running Time
2h 1m

Genres
Drama

Last updated: 2025-04-13

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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.