A Night in Hong Kong (1961)
Synopsis
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.
Release Date: 1961-07-01
Runtime: 119 minutes
Director: Yasuki Chiba
Top Cast
- Akira Takarada as Hiroshi Tanaka
- Lucilla Yu Ming as Wu Li Hung
- Yōko Tsukasa as Keiko Kimura
- Mitsuko Kusabue as Yu Lan
- Rumiko Sasa as Kiyoko Matsuyama
- Michiyo Kogure as Yoshiko Matsuyama
- Hiroshi Koizumi as
- Ken Uehara as Ryuzo Kimura
- Yū Fujiki as Shozo Ishikawa
- Daisuke Katō as Kenkichi Matsuyama
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