Marital Relations (1955)

5.2

Drama

121 min min

1955

Hisaya Morishige Chikage Awashima Yōko Tsukasa Haruo Tanaka Eiko Miyoshi

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actress (Awashima), and the Mainichi Concours award for best actor and best screenplay (Yasumi Toshio). It ranked second (after Naruse Mikio’s Ukigumo) on the Kinema Junpō top ten films for the year.