Marital Relations
| Marital Relations | |
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 Japanese movie poster | |
| Directed by | Shirō Toyoda |
| Written by |
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| Produced by | Ichiro Sato |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Mitsuo Miura |
| Edited by | Kōichi Iwashita |
| Music by | Ikuma Dan |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Toho |
Release date | |
Running time | 120 minutes[1][2] |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Marital Relations (夫婦善哉, Meoto zenzai), also known as Love is Shared Like Sweets,[3] is a 1955 black-and-white 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 spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Shōwa era. The film won the prestigious 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 Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.[2]
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References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "夫婦善哉 (Marital Relations)". Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "夫婦善哉 (Marital Relations)". Kinenote (in Japanese). Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ "夫婦善哉 : 作品情報". 映画.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 18 September 2021.
External links[]
- Marital Relations at IMDb
- Marital Relations at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
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