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Marital Relations (1955)

Marital Relations (1955)

Drama
Release Date: 1955, September 13
Directors: Shirō Toyoda
Countries: Japan
Production: TOHO, TOHO
Cast: Hisaya Morishige, Chikage Awashima

Overview:

​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.