Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me (1963)
Overview
Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks set against the backdrop of the Roppongi district in Tokyo. Masaaki (Minegishi Toru) is the son of a prominent judge and a Law student at university. Chikage (Nakagawa Yuki) is a teenager from an underprivileged home. Both are desperately looking for an escape from their lives when they meet in Roppongi one night and fall in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, their happiness isn't assured.
Cast
Toru Minegishi
Ebina Masaaki
Yuki Nakagawa
Akutagawa Chikage
Kamatari Fujiwara
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Masao Shimizu
Keiko Awaji
Tadao Takashima
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Tatsuo Matsumura
Naoya Kusakawa
Machiko Naka
Toki Shiozawa
Nami Tamura
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