Film

Marital Relations

1955 · 2h 1m · Drama

IMDb

7.1

​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.

Hisaya Morishige

Ryukichi

Chikage Awashima

Choko

Yōko Tsukasa

Haruo Tanaka

Eiko Miyoshi

Yoshiko Morikawa

Isao Yamagata

Kichijirō Ueda

Sonosuke Sawamura

Akira Tani

Noriko Honma

Ikio Sawamura

Shōichi Hirose

Katsumi Tezuka

Hideo Shibuya

Senkichi Ōmura

• Shirō ToyodaDirector
• Toshio YasumiScreenplay
• Sakunosuke OdaNovel
• Ichirō SatōProducer
• Mitsuo MiuraDirector of Photography
• Ikuma DanOriginal Music Composer
• Kôichi IwashitaEditor

Release date

September 13, 1955

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

2h 1m

Genres

Drama