, also known as ''Love is Shared Like Sweets'', is a 1955 Japanese
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...
directed by
Shirō Toyoda
was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who directed over 60 films during his career which spanned 50 years. He was denoted for his high-quality adaptations of works of many important twentieth-century Japanese writers.
Career
Born in Kyo ...
, starring
Hisaya Morishige
was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Ma ...
and
Chikage Awashima
was a Japanese film and stage actress.
Life
A graduate from Takarazuka Music and Dance School and member of the Takarazuka Revue, Chikage Awashima entered the Shochiku film studios and made her film debut in 1950. She appeared in films of numero ...
. It is an adaptation of the 1940 novel of the same name by
Sakunosuke Oda
was a Japanese writer
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.
''Marital Relations'' tells the story of a couple, a disinherited son of a shopkeeper and his
geisha
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mistress, in
Osaka
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in the early
Shōwa era
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.
Cast
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Hisaya Morishige
was a Japanese actor and comedian. Born in Hirakata, Osaka, he graduated from Kitano Middle School (now Kitano High School), and attended Waseda University. He began his career as a stage actor, then became an announcer for NHK, working in Ma ...
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Chikage Awashima
was a Japanese film and stage actress.
Life
A graduate from Takarazuka Music and Dance School and member of the Takarazuka Revue, Chikage Awashima entered the Shochiku film studios and made her film debut in 1950. She appeared in films of numero ...
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Yoko Tsukasa
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Chieko Naniwa
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Haruo Tanaka
was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades.
Career
Tanaka was born in Kyoto and quit school in order to become a film actor, joining the Nikkatsu studio in 1925. He eventually moved up to se ...
Awards
''Marital Relations'' received the
Blue Ribbon Awards
The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan, established in 1950 by , established under the name of the "Association of Tokyo Film Journalists Award", which was formed mainly by film reporters from th ...
for Best Director, Best Actor (Morishige) and Best Actress (Awashima), and the
Mainichi Film Concours
The
are a series of annual film awards, sponsored by ''Mainichi Shimbun'' (毎日新聞), one of the largest newspaper companies in Japan
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for Best Actor and Best Screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after
Mikio Naruse
was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 89 films spanning the period 1930 to 1967.
Naruse is known for imbuing his films with a bleak and pessimistic outlook. He made primarily Shoshimin-eiga, shōshimin-eiga ("common people drama") films with f ...
's ''
Floating Clouds'') on the list of the year's ten best films of ''
Kinema Junpō''.
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Japanese black-and-white films
1955 films
1955 drama films
Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Shirō Toyoda
Japanese drama films
1950s Japanese films
1950s Japanese-language films
Films scored by Ikuma Dan
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