Movie Description
香港の夜
(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.
Featured Crew
- Director : Yasuki Chiba
- Producer : Chung Kai-Man,Sanezumi Fujimoto
- Writer : Toshirō Ide
- Cast : Akira Takarada,Lucilla Yu Ming,Yōko Tsukasa,Mitsuko Kusabue,Rumiko Sasa,Michiyo Kogure,Hiroshi Koizumi,Ken Uehara,Yū Fujiki,Daisuke Katō,King Pai-Chien,Yin Wang,Hideyo Amamoto,Mie Hama,Kang Pak King,Ma Ree,Kao Hsiang,Ma Lik
Cast
Hiroshi Tanaka
Wu Li Hung
Keiko Kimura
Yu Lan
Kiyoko Matsuyama
Yoshiko Matsuyama
Ryuzo Kimura
Shozo Ishikawa
Kenkichi Matsuyama
Zhang Qianli
Wang Kang-ning
Zhang's maid
Posters
Facts
Original Title香港の夜
Status Released
Release Information
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1961-07-01
Original LanguageUnknown
Runtime 01h 59m
Production CompaniesTOHO,Motion Picture & General Investment Co., Ltd.
Genres
- Romance
