Meoto zenzai (1955)

Original title

夫婦善哉

Directed by

Shirō Toyoda

Genre

drama film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 01m

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A disinherited son of a shopkeeper and his geisha mistress struggle through life together in early Showa-era Osaka. The film follows their difficult relationship and the hardships they face.

melancholicgrittyromanticslow-burnintimateearthywistfulgrounded

What happens

Marital Relations (Japanese: 夫婦善哉, Hepburn: 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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