Marital Relations

Meoto zenzai

Japan

1955

121 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

Japanese

Currently 0.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Toshio Yasumi, Sakunosuke Oda

CAST Hisaya Morishige, Chikage Awashima, Yôko Tsukasa, Haruo Tanaka, Eiko Miyoshi, Yoshiko Morikawa, Isao Yamagata, Kichijirô Ueda, Sonosuke Sawaura, Akira Tani, Noriko Honma, Ikio Sawamura, Fukami Harue, Senkichi Ômura, Shôichi Hirose, Hideo Shibuya, Katsumi Tezuka

SOUND Kazuo Baba

Synopsis

A geisha girl loves and protects the wayward son of a rich Osaka merchant. She, being of a lower class, can never enjoy the acceptance of the man’s family. —BFI

Director

Shirō Toyoda (豊田四郎 Toyoda Shirō, born 3 January 1906, Kyoto, Japan – 13 November 1977, Tokyo, Japan) was a Japanese film director. Born in Kyoto, Toyoda moved to Tokyo in his teens and began studying under the pioneering film director Eizō Tanaka. He joined Shōchiku’s Kamata studio in 1924 and worked as an assistant director under Yasujirō Shimazu. He debuted as a director in 1929 and moved to the independent Tokyo Hassei studio in 1935, where he scored a hit with Young People and gained a reputation for directing literary adaptations with a humanistic touch. After a slump during World War II, he became one of the top directors at Toho (into which Tokyo Hassei had merged during the war), famed for his adaptations of literary works by such giants as Yasunari Kawabata, Kafū Nagai, Naoya Shiga, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, Masuji Ibuse, and Ango Sakaguchi. He was particularly known for portraying weak men and strong women with a humorous touch, such as in films like Meoto zenzai (1955). His career… read more