Marital Relations (1955)
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.
Cast
Hisaya Morishige
Ryukichi
Chikage Awashima
Choko
Yōko Tsukasa
Haruo Tanaka
Eiko Miyoshi
Isao Yamagata
Kichijirō Ueda
Sonosuke Sawamura
Noriko Honma
Ikio Sawamura
Shōichi Hirose
Katsumi Tezuka
Hideo Shibuya
Senkichi Ōmura
Chieko Naniwa
Makoto Kobori
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