Marital Relations

Marital Relations — Plot

​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.

• Release date
• September 13, 1955
• Runtime
• 121 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Shirō Toyoda

Marital Relations — Cast

Hisaya Morishige Ryukichi Chikage Awashima Choko Yōko Tsukasa Haruo Tanaka Eiko Miyoshi

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Yoshiko Morikawa Isao Yamagata Kichijirō Ueda