A Night in Hong Kong (1961)
Overview
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.
Cast
Akira Takarada
Hiroshi Tanaka
Lucilla Yu Ming
Wu Li Hung
Yōko Tsukasa
Keiko Kimura
Mitsuko Kusabue
Yu Lan
Rumiko Sasa
Kiyoko Matsuyama
Michiyo Kogure
Yoshiko Matsuyama
Hiroshi Koizumi
Ken Uehara
Ryuzo Kimura
Yū Fujiki
Shozo Ishikawa
Daisuke Katō
Kenkichi Matsuyama
King Pai-Chien
Yin Wang
Zhang Qianli
Hideyo Amamoto
Mie Hama
Kao Hsiang
Zhang's maid
Ma Lik
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