Film

Marital Relations

1955Directed by Shirō Toyoda

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Runtime
2h 1m

About Marital Relations

  • Drama

Synopsis

​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.

Director
  • Shirō Toyoda
Writers
  • Sakunosuke Oda
  • Toshio Yasumi
Original title
夫婦善哉

Principal cast

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